Botulinum Toxin
Botulinum Toxin
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Botulinum toxin is the best and effective treatment offered by shubham skin clinic at Pune sinhagad road to treat facial wrinkles.
B. T. is a diluted form produced from fermentation of clostridium botulinum type A organism. It is natural purified protein that relaxes muscle by blocking nerve impulses. Once the muscles are at rest skin becomes tight & smoother creates more natural & relaxed appearance. It is best scientific & proved treatment for facial lines & wrinkles & it is major breakthrough against ageing in both men & women. Generally drooping lines between eyebrows, horizontal lines on forehead & wrinkles around eyes negatively affect our personality & make our look older. In this process other nerve functions like sensation, pain & touch are absolutely not affected.Botulinum toxin makes your skin tight & smoother & helps in slowdown the process of ageing & makes you younger & younger.
First the patient is advised to wash his/her face & then lines & wrinkles are marked & the area where B. T. is to be given is selected by making desired facial movements. Selected area is numbed with ice pack or local anesthetic cream as per tolerance of individual patient. Then prepared B. T. Injection is filled in syringe & proper units are injected in selected muscle. Actually pain of injection is so minimal that no anesthesia is required. It is very simple procedure & hardly takes 30 minutes for completion. There are no marks or any changes remain on face after injection & patient can perform his routine work immediately after the procedure. After 24-48 hours you will start noticing improvement in wrinkles & final result will come in week.
Various studies have shown that wrinkles do not worsen if B. T. is discontinued. Wrinkles will reappear on same place after the effect of B. T. will go, but it takes 1 year & the process is very slow. On long term use of B. T. the doses get decreased & frequency of treatment required less & less because in spite the effect of B. T. remain for 1 year it avoids the skin from getting permanent lines & wrinkles on face which is called as static line.
B. T. is generally done for facial wrinkles. Wrinkles usually appear after age of 40 but rarely it can appear in young age. So any person either male or female having facial wrinkles & look aged want to improve their look & personality are best candidates for B. T. treatment. Any muscle on face causing deep lines & wrinkles can be treated with B. T. Most common treatment areas are horizontal lines on forehead, glabellar lines between eyebrows, crow’s feet & wrinkles around eyes.B. T. is also done for the treatment of hyperhidrosis ( Excessive sweating of palms & soles)But quantity of injection required is more so it is very costly.
As such there are no long term side effects of B. T. It acts only on the muscle causing wrinkles & absolutely restores normal function of nerves & muscles. So it very safe & proven treatment.As far as cost concern B. T. is quite expensive because the injection itself is costly to made. But when we compare the results of B. T. on wrinkles with other treatments the cost is negligible.
B. T. treatment session done in 25-30 minutes. Minimum one session is necessary in a year.
• Treatment is non surgical. No cut & no stitches required.
• Treatment is painless & patient can immediately resume his work.
• No need of internal medicines & no side effects.
• Any anticoagulant medicines like aspirin should be stopped 1-2 days prior to B. T.treatment.
• Mild redness & swelling will be there on face ,usually disappear after 20-30 minutes
• Avoid vigorous exercise of facial muscles.