BOTOX

Botulinum toxin, better known as Botox (the brand of the first drug of this type that was marketed), is actually the toxin that produces botulism. However, it takes advantage of its ability to produce muscular paralysis for use with medical purposes in the treatment of certain neurological diseases and aesthetic medicine for wrinkles of expression, which is what is most known.

Among its many medical applications include: Botox

• Strabismus.
• The blepharospasm.
• Vertebral Algias.
• Urinary incontinence in paraplegics.

With regard to the elimination of facial wrinkles, Botox offers clear advantages:

• Avoids surgery.
• Can be applied at any time of the year.
• It is a practically painless technique.
• Its effects are immediate and extend between five and six months.
• Hardly has contraindications.
• Rarely produces adverse effects, such as allergic reactions, facial stiffness or nausea.

The technique consists of the infiltration by means of an superfine needle of botulinum toxin in the muscle of the area to be treated, producing its relaxation and inhibiting its movement. Therefore, its fundamental application in aesthetics is the treatment of expression wrinkles, the ones that appear in the eyebrows, forehead, corners of the lips or the contour of the eyes.