Botulinum Toxin (Botox) in Dubai
(Neuromodulators, Dysport)
The botulinic toxin is a substance which decreases muscle contraction by acting at the level of the neuro-muscular junction (myorelaxing action). Since 1975, botulinic toxin has been used to correct child strabism, facial tics and spontaneous eye blinking. Concerning aesthetic medicine, it was first noticed that patients treated with botulinic toxin have fewer wrinkles around the eye than the others. In 1990, a more observing female patient asked her doctor to balance the other eye: the aesthetical indication was thus born. In 2002, the botulinic toxin, received, in the USA, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorization for its use to treat the wrinkles in between the two eyebrows.
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Overview
The more usual indications for botulinic toxin aesthetical injections are the wrinkles between the two eyebrows, the frontal lines and the crow-feet wrinkles. The principle of botulinic toxin consists of using its muscular release properties. The main goal, we want to reach, is to obtain a decreased muscular action at the level of the forehead and the eyebrows, in order to decrease the horizontal and/or vertical wrinkles induced by muscle contraction.
The brow position is actually fixed by the balance of two opposite forces, one corresponding to lowering muscles (located around the eyebrow) and the other one corresponding to one elevating muscle (the frontalis muscle).
The horizontal wrinkles are due to the contraction of the frontalis muscle, and the vertical ones are due to the contraction of the lowering muscles.
The main goal of the treatment is to improve wrinkles and fine lines, when in a resting position, and not to avoid muscle contraction. Concerning the balance between the lowering and elevating muscles, the botulinic toxin, by reducing the action of one muscle group, decreases the wrinkles related to these muscles and releases, at the same time, the action of the opposed muscles: our aim is to treat the muscular balance, in order to obtain a facial harmony. Such use allows to smoothen the skin and get a rejuvenating effect due to muscular tension release.
It is recommended, at the time of the first session, to treat wrinkles progressively and to avoid the risk of “doing too much”. We should prefer a moderately efficient first session than a too efficient one which will immobilize the face expressions. In certain cases, it can be necessary to practice several sessions before adapting the treatment potentialities, in respect with patient particularities, in order to get the optimal result.
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Before the procedure
No need for special preparation. On the day of the injection, you don’t need to be fasting. For women, it is recommended to come without any makeup or to remove it just before the injection.
It is very important to minimize the bleeding risk, at the treated areas, by avoiding aspirin for 15 days before and after the session. We must also respect the following contra-indications:
A certain number of precautions must also be taken:
From a general point of view, don’t hesitate to mention to your physician any health problem you may have, to allow him to counterbalance the indications and get optimal results.
After the procedure: the follow-up
For two hours following the injections, it is advised not to do any intense sport and not to lie facing down. It is also advised to avoid any facial manipulation or massage for 24 hours following the session.
It is very important to minimize the risks of bruises or bleeding at the treated area, for 15 days before and after injections, in order to avoid the injected substance to run away to muscles around which could produce undesirable side effects.
On the other hand, during three days following the injections, it is advisable to strongly contract the injected muscles, three times a day, for about 5 seconds per muscle.
Usually, the after injection period is uneventful. Some slightly swollen marks may stay for 20 to 30 minutes before disappearing. The patients can go back to their normal life soon after the injections. Some rare undesirable but transitory effects may occur, like:
The result
The expected result, which in most case is impressive, is a combination of wrinkles decreasing with small motions enabled; it is obtained within 5 to 15 days following the injections. You can usually see the result after a few days, but for about 15 days the effects on the face may be variable (even sometimes possibly asymmetrical) before stabilizing.
The result obtained after the first session lasts 3 to 6 months averagely, after which the injections can be renewed. Depending on the patient, after several sessions, every 3 to 6 months, there might be achieved a quite stable result. Even after the second injection, the results may stay longer – 6 to 8 months, which is however quite unusual in the UAE due to heat which increases the absorption of the toxin. However, we recommend never to be re-injected within a period of less than 3 months, to avoid creating resistance to the substance, due to “a vaccination effect”. If you stop the injections, the treated muscle will go back to its normal function.
