Botox clinics are now cropping up across various cities

The signs of age first make its appearance as fine lines under the eyes and on the forehead. Besides, deep laughing lines contribute to lend your appearance even older. Such initial onset of ageing can be effectively combated with botox injections. Besides, botox doses at regular intervals retard the re-occurrence of wrinkles to a great extent. This is great news for those who feel frustrated after discovering the first signs of ageing. A lot many of them are deterred by the enormous risks involved in undergoing cosmetic surgery, skin peels, chemical peels, or face lift. Botox has given them the option to renew their youth using minimal painless methods.

To create facial expressions we contract the muscles in our face. When you smile the muscles around your eyes contract to create wrinkles on their sides resembling the feet of a crow. Hence, permanent lines around your eyes are commonly known as “crow’s feet”. Looking up forms the horizontal lines on the forehead and frowning / getting angry creates the deep vertical lines in between the eyebrows (also known as anger / frown lines). With age the skin looses its structural qualities and with repetitive muscle contractions over years the lines and wrinkles slowly engrave in the skin. The lines get deeper and alter their pigmentation making the lines and wrinkles more prominent and permanent. Paralysing the respected muscles by local injection of Botox® stops the lines and wrinkle forming thereby relaxing the skin overlying. The relaxed skin not only looks more youthful but any damage done over the previous years will reverse with time. Permanent lines will start to disappear and the treatment will knock off years of your age.
Initially, people were apprehensive about the workings of botox. But it needs to be understood that botox works in the same way as other drugs. One is injecting a product of botulism bacterium very much like penicillin, derived from mold, being administered into the body. In fact, almost all the antibiotics have their origin in micro organisms, and botox is no different.
With so much money at stake, will doctors really put the best interests of their patients first? If patients look better and if by implication have improved self-esteem, with minimal chances of complications and they there should be no ethical problem in treating those patients.
Botox® can also be used to improve chronic headaches, migraines, backaches and many more conditions associated with muscle contraction by relaxing the muscles that tense up in the respective regions. It is widely used in the oriental countries for patients with prominent jaw angles. Also, the same types of nerves that Botox® blocks also innervate the sweat glands. Hence, local Botox® injections are used to reduce sweating in patients with excessive sweating disorders most commonly on the face, palms, underarms and feet.
For those readers who’ve had these procedures I would advise them to proceed with caution around inexperienced practitioners. For those who have not had this treatment before – Please accept my humble apology for introducing you to a whole new world of addictive expense!