Botox injection treatment

Botox, which harnesses one of the 7 neurotoxins (botulinum toxin A) associated with the food poisoning effect known as botulism, allows this neurotoxin to block the neurotransmitter that is responsible for telling muscle fibers to contract and move. In botulism, the effect can lead upwards to paralysis, and even death, but in controlled micro-injections called Botox, the effect is much more minimal and also targeted. Basically, Botox causes the area injected to become paralyzed and thus the facial muscles cannot contract. Thus, wrinkles are not nearly as obvious and formed.

Using Botox, cosmetic surgeons and cosmetic surgery spa facilitators can target the area above the nose and between the eyebrows and temporarily freeze these glabellar frown and furrow lines - making the wrinkles all but vanish - which dramatically effects the appearance of the patient and makes them appear younger. Although this area above the nose is the only area of the body that has been approved by the FDA for treatment using Botox (in 2002), FDA regulations allow for other areas to be treated and currently there are 75 countries that use Botox in 20 different applications.

Below are some of the common side effects users can expect to experience when using Botox, with the caveat that some may experience none of these symptoms at all.

- Dysphasia (impairment of voluntary movement)
- Upper respiratory-tract infection
- Headaches
- Neck pains
- Ptosis
- Bruising/soreness at injection site
- Nausea