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Botox May Affect Ability to Feel Emotions
New Study Shows Botox May Dampen Some Emotion Botox injections may do more than smooth your wrinkles and limit your facial expressions. These popular injections may also dampen your ability to feel emotions. The study findings appear in the journal Emotions. Botox injections were the No. 1 nonsurgical cosmetic procedure performed in 2009, according to […]
Study: Botox Erases Wrinkles, Maybe Emotions Too
A new study suggests that the muscle-paralyzing cosmetic injections called Botox could also rob you of your full range of emotions. “With Botox, a person will have less movement in the facial muscles that have been injected, and therefore less feedback to the brain about such facial expressivity,” wrote the study’s co-author Joshua Davis, a […]
Understanding Botox Cosmetic Pricing and Dosage
Every day we get questions from patients asking about the way Botox Cosmetic is prepared and priced, and it is confusing until you understand the difference between dilution and units. Botox Cosmetic is a vacuum-dried protein powder so it needs to be mixed with a liquid in order for it to be injected. The total […]
Off Label uses in Aesthetic Medicine
Off-label prescribing, also known as unapproved use, is the physician practice of prescribing a drug or medical device for a purpose different from one of the indications for which the product is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The practice is widespread. Although there are no accurate data, estimates run as high as […]
No More DIY Botox
A website selling vials of injectable aesthetic medicines has been shut down. Last October, we reported that authorities were cracking down on a north Texas woman who was selling injectables like Dysport, Botox and Restylane over the internet in a kit containing two saline filled syringes and a vial of the medicine. The woman, […]
FDA Agrees to UltraShape 510(k) Pathway – Expected to Shorten FDA Clearance Process
UltraShape Ltd. announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration advised the company that it may submit a request for clearance of its Contour I system under the 510(k) regulation rather than as a Pre-Market Approval (PMA) as was previously advised. Proceeding under the 510(k) pathway is expected to simplify and shorten the submission […]
Off-label use of Botox benefits stroke victims
While the FDA finally approved the use of Botox to treat stroke victims (suffering damage to their arms and hands) this past March, doctors have been injecting it into stroke victims for nearly twenty years in a practice called “off-label” prescribing. “Off-label” basically means that physicians use certain drugs to treat conditions for which they […]
Use Of Botox Injections And Anticholinergic Drugs As Facial Sweating Cures
Have you had heavy facial sweating for the past couple of years already? If you’ve had it for years, you are definitely searching for a cure that will get rid of your excessive sweating for good or you have tried some treatment methods that disappointed you. Read this article to find out some important facts […]
Hand Rejuvenation: Women turn to cosmetic surgery to turn back the hands of time
In the Royal Society in London hangs a portrait by Henry Moore of the Nobel prize-winning scientist Dorothy Hodgkin. Instead of her face, Moore decided to draw just her gnarled and knobbly hands, worn by 68 years of work, motherhood and life, saying that “after the head and the face, hands are the most expressive […]
The Misconceptions about Botox
Botulinum neurotoxin, which was once called the ‘most poisonous poison on the planet’has recently seen a surge in the number of medical conditions that this elegant and specific chemical can treat. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the pharmaceutical comes in two differing forms, Botox® and Dysport®. Botox was the original word patented by Allergan […]
