BOTOX - The Temporary Wrinkle Solution

Botox has made a huge splash in the health and beauty marketbecause of its ability to erase and minimize wrinkles. Thestunning success of the BOTOX solution has had beautyenthusiasts lining up to receive their wrinkle treatments. Arebotox treatments safe? After all BoTOX is a protein toxinproduced by clostridium botulinum bacteria. This is the firstcousin to the deadly botulism bacteria.

Botox has been safely used by opthamoligists for over a decadewithout any serious side effects being reported. This drug hasactually been around since the early 1960's. Originally it wasused as a treatment for crossed eyes. The manner in which botoxworks is that it is injected into the muscle where the wrinklesappear. When the botox is injected into the muscle the frownlines, crow's feet and laugh lines temporarily disappear. Istress the use of the word "temporary" because a botox treatmentnormally lasts about 3 to 6 months. Botox treatments wereapproved by the Food and Drug Administration as a treatment ofmuscles that produce frown lines.

Botox injections have quickly become the fastest growingcosmetic procedure and are anticipated to be used on over 4.5million patients in 2006. They are more popular than breastaugmentation. Current botox patients report that after severaltreatments that the effects of this wrinkle cure last muchlonger. It is important to note that Botox is ineffective forfine wrinkles because fine wrinkles do not appear because offacial expression caused by facial muscles. On the flipside, theone negative of botox treatments is a slight and temporarydrooping of the eyelid. At the present time this appears to bethe most important side effect of botox treatment.

While botox has been safely used by millions of patients, it isrecommended that pregnant women, or women who are breastfeedingtheir babies as well as patients suffering from neurologicdisease should never use botox.

Botox treatments do not work for everyone. However, over 90% ofpatients who have been surveyed are extremely happy with thisprocedure. This temporary cure for wrinkles has created quite abit of excitement in the health and beauty field. This procedureis administered by qualified plastic surgeons. The average costfor a simple botox treatment is about $200 - $400 for each areathat it is applied to