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Eye Lifts and Botox

Eye lifts and Botox are popular cosmetic procedures nowadays. Botox is actually the trade name of a neurotoxin used to treat abnormal muscle contractions, but it is now used by cosmetic surgeons to temporarily smoothen wrinkles.

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Can you receive Botox injections if on Remicade?

Yes, you can receive Botox injections while on Remicade (infliximab), but it's important to consult with your healthcare provider first. They can evaluate your specific medical situation, as both treatments can affect the immune system. Additionally, potential interactions or side effects should be discussed to ensure safety and effectiveness. Always follow your doctor's recommendations regarding treatments.

Is there an American Society of Plastic Surgeon certified doctor in Ankara?

Dr.Muhitdin Eski is highly qualified in the field of plastic and reconstructive surgery as an ASPS certified surgeon in Ankara Turkey

Who can give Botox injections?

Cosmetic Surgeons and Doctors are the only people who should be giving Botox injections.

What is botulinum toxin's purpose?

Botulinum toxin was developed to treat strabismus (cross-eye or lazy eye), and was shortly thereafter discovered to be highly effective for many forms of dystonia.

Why injecting Botox into superficial facial muscles reduces the appearance of deep facial wrinkles called muscle lines?

Botox actually paralyzes the muscle that it is injected into. If you ask the person to smile, they will not be able to use that muscle. Great care has to be taken as this is the deadliest toxin known.

Has anyone experience generic botox?

Nope.

In case you are willing to know more about plastic and cosmetic surgery procedures, I advise you to visit your doctor for a more reliable experience. In addition, consider visiting specialized reference websites about surgery and other medical subjects.

You can find on Google many. Here is a good example of a website that can help on on your research:

http:/www.surgery.com

Regards

Does Gunnar Nelson get Botox He looks very wide eyed lately?

Yes. And, over the last twenty years has admitted candidly to have had other plastic surgeries. Sadly, what he'll never know is that true beauty comes from within. The only ones I've heard him talk about is his nose job and the lipo suction. Has there anymore that he has talked about?

Use of botox in hemiplegia spasm?

I am an ortho/neuro RN and have seen Intramuscular injections of botox given for this reason. Botox ofcourse causes muscle paralysis.

Who invented botox?

Alan B Scott, MD, an ophthalmologist and founder of the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco, first developed and manufactured Botulinum Type A neurotoxin (BTX-A) for therapeutic use in eye muscles. Originally trade-named "Oculinum", it was rebranded "Botox" when rights were sold to Allergan, which developed it as a cosmetic. Scott first reported that BTX-A could weaken selected eye muscles in monkeys in 1973, and was clinically useful to treat human strabismus in 1980.

Strabismus is misalignment of the eyes caused by imbalances in the actions of muscles that rotate them. Regardless of cause, balance can sometimes be restored by weakening a muscle that pulls too strongly, or pulls against one that has been weakened by disease or trauma. BTX-A prevents neurotransmitter release from neuromuscular junctions, and so at least partially paralyzes injected muscles. The paralytic effect is temporary, and it might seem that injections would always need to be repeated, except that muscles adapt to the lengths at which they are chronically held, so that a muscle paralyzed by BTX-A tends to get stretched-out by its antagonist (if there is one) and grow longer, while the antagonist tends to grow shorter. This can lead to a permanent re-alignment, even when BTX-A-caused paralysis has resolved.

Scott wanted to treat strabismus without surgery or general anesthesia, but the 6 muscles of an intact eye lie deep in the orbit and are hardly visible, so how could the desired muscle alone be injected? Scott solved this problem by developing EMG-guided injection: the hypodermic needle used to inject the toxin would also function as an electrode that recorded the activity (the electromyogram or EMG) of the muscle in which its tip was embedded. Patients would need to be awake during the procedure. The needle would be introduced, and as the patient looked in different directions, the pattern of muscle activity, played through a speaker, would indicate when the belly of the targeted muscle had been entered, and the toxin would be injected.

To appreciate the genius of Scott's work, consider that even a mind capable of working out the medical, pharmacological, and practical aspects of such a non-obvious procedure, and its safe application, would likely flee, early on, from thoughts of pushing a hypodermic needle deep alongside the healthy eye of an awake patient, without visual guidance, for the purpose of injecting the most acutely toxic substance known.

Is Botox a substitute for an eye lift?

I have had both Botox and and eye lift. Botox doesn't "lift" anything. It simply paralyzes the muscle into which it is injected. This makes any lines or furrows in that area relax and fade quite a bit. In order to have your eyes actually lifted you need to have it done surgically. I personally found it to be no big deal, with only a little down time.