So you are considering injections to smooth out your wrinkles, expression lines, or in general you wish to rejuvenate your appearance without invasive surgery?
GO FOR IT, YOU WILL BE THRILLED!
Do not deny yourself these miraculous results which can never be achieved by any creams, no matter how expensive or how diligently applied! Two types of injections are usually used for different groups of wrinkles and lines. Botulinum Toxin Type A ( Botox® - USA, Dysport® – France) and Fillers such as Restylane®, Perlane®, Juvederm® Aquamid® or Artecoll® (or any other trade name they use. Trade names change from country to country but Fillers or Implants are basically the same and are injected in the same way- to fill the wrinkles and folds under the skin). All of these injections are safe and virtually painless.
1. Botulinum Toxin Type A.
(Botulinum Toxin Type A® BOTOX-US and DYSPORT® France) is a miracle drug, amazingly effective and completely safe. It not only lifts the forehead and eyelids but, opens the eyes, smoothes the skin with a youthful glow, and most importantly prevents the formation of new lines!
Botulinum Toxin Type A is injected into the muscles responsible for facial expressions. The muscles that lift eyebrows up (surprise, question, etc,) or those which move eyebrows closer together, or those that lift cheeks to create a smile, are responsible for horizontal and perpendicular lines above the nose (frown lines), or “crows feet”. Botulinum Toxin Type A, when injected into those muscles, weakens them, allowing for a larger muscle in the forehead to more effectively “pull” the forehead up. This effect is called the “Botox Lift” which essentially reverses the effects of gravity. Your skin is not being constantly creased by unconscious mobility and heals itself. The effect is phenomenal and usually gives us a lot of joy- since the face does not change as may happen with surgery, just goes back in time- we really see ourselves as we remember from 10-15 years ago!
2. Fillers Temporary or Permanent.
Botulinum Toxin Type A is recommended for the upper part of the face and neck.
Fillers are recommended for the lower part of the face creased which need to be filled out.
Temporary Fillers are either Collagen or Hyaluronic Acid Gel. In Europe, Restylane, Perlane (Sweden) or Juvederm (France) are used. Permanent Filler Artecoll (Holland) or Aquamid (Switzerland) have been used for many years. Permanent Fillers are used mainly for correcting and shaping the lips.
HERE ARE THE ANSWERS:
Is it safe?
Yes, these materials have been used in medicine for a long time for other conditions. During its use, it was discovered that wrinkles vanish in the sites of injections.
(This is the case with Botulinum Toxin Type A- It was originally used around the eyes in patients suffering from blepharospasms- incontrollable “winking”. A desirable side effect was discovered that “crow’s feet” disappeared completely as a result of the injections.
Only Collagen requires an allergy test a month in advance of an injection, therefore other Fillers are more popular now.
2. What about the drooping eye lid, which I have heard may happen?
First of all it is not the eyelid- it is the eyebrow.
In reality, dropping “eyelids’ are usually caused by the patients themselves who either bend down, lie down or massage the area within 4 hours after the injections into the forehead.
Regardless, this condition is easily corrected by injecting horizontally high under the hairline above the affected brow.
If the doctor has not warned you, don’t pay for correction.
If he did, you pay.
3. I hear that injections (apart of Permanent Fillers) should be repeated periodically. Will my skin become worse if I don’t?
Botulinum Toxin Type A works from 3 to 8 months depending on the individual. Mobility to the area slowly returns, but the wrinkles and creases do not reappear for another 2 to 4 months. Therefore your skin never becomes worse, even after Botulinum Toxin Type A stopped working (meaning muscles slowly regained their initial strength), your skin still looks smother and younger than before!
4. How often should I repeat the injections?
Some more good news, you don’t hear this often from doctors who inject it- either they do not know it, or they want you to come and pay more often. Yes, it is good to repeat injections 6 months after the first procedure, but Botulinum Toxin Type A ACCUMULATES. Afterwards, your next injection should be after about 8 months, and afterwards, once a year is sufficient and the amounts used will be smaller. Gauge it for yourself- YOU decide when you need to repeat the procedure. Don’t worry, Botulinum Toxin Type A produces uniform excellent results always. However, TRY NOT TO INJECT BOTULINUM TOXIN TYPE A TOO OFTEN. Overindulgence and many repeated procedures within short time periods can result in a type of “resistance” to the injections with the result of a weaker muscle response to the injections and with effects lasting shorter.
In conclusion, try to space your treatments out - with the second procedure 6 months after the initial injections and the third procedure 8 months after the second. From then on, yearly procedures should suffice. Wrinkles start to become etched in. Botulinum Toxin Type A will reverse it anyway.
5. Am I too young?
Our patients range in age from 16 to 86 years old. If someone wants to get rid of an imperfection why not, there are no medical indications of not having these procedures done. During pregnancy no procedures should be done.
6. Am I too old?
Botulinum Toxin Type A produces especially good results in older people. The reason is that weaker muscles and thinner skin react even more favorable to the injections.
7. I am pregnant, can I have these procedures done?
No. Please stay away from all elective procedures!
8. Do the injections hurt?
Botulinum Toxin Type A is almost painless. Ice is applied just before the procedure to numb the surface of the skin. Surprise- injections around the eyes are often completely painless- due to the minimal amount of nerve endings in this area.
Needles should be 30G- the thinnest available- Fillers do hurt somewhat. Procedures of implantation take longer, medical materials injected have a gel like consistency, and therefore thicker needles are used. Temporary Fillers used Hyaluronic acid which stings. We use not only numbing gel, but also “top off” the syringe with a small amount of local anesthetic. Permanent Fillers also hurt because they add volume pushing on the nerve endings inside. Do ask for an injection of a tiny bit of local anesthetic. Good news is that pain is felt only while the filler is coming out of the syringe under the skin. It stops immediately after the needle is withdrawn and there is no pain after the procedure.
9. How should I prepare for the procedure?
You cannot be taking antibiotics if you are going to have Botulinum Toxin Type A injected. It will not work. Antibiotics kill Botulinum Toxin Type A. It is OK to have Botulinum Toxin Type A done a minimum of 3 days after taking antibiotics. Important – do not drink alcohol within 4 hours before and after injections, even if your doctor does not warn you. Botulinum Toxin Type A results will not be as good as they should be.
If you are going to have Restylane®, Juvederm® Aquamid® or Artecoll® injected, do not take aspirin or any blood thinners. Do take Vitamin C for a week before your scheduled procedure to minimize bruising.
10. How long does the procedure take?
Botulinum Toxin Type A injections take only a few minutes. That is all it takes for a needle to be in and out 5-8 times. An experienced MD does it very fast.
Implants take about 20 minutes to perform. Shaping of the lips takes about 15 minutes for each lip.
11. How will I look after the procedure?
After Botulinum Toxin Type A there might be redness in the points of injection. It disappears after about 15 minutes. Small bruises might appear the next day, but can be concealed with makeup. You can resume your activities right away.
Fillers will show immediate improvement in the appearance of the skin. The shape of the lips will be corrected. There may be swelling that will disappear in a day or two. Bruising might appear, but not necessarily. Nothing should prevent you from your daily activities.
12. How should I behave after the procedure?
After Botulinum Toxin Type A, do not lie down, bend down or massage places where procedures were performed. Also, do not drink any alcoholic beverages for 4 hours after the procedure.
After Fillers there are special instructions outside of not applying anything to the injection site for the rest of the day to avoid infection.
13. When is the best effect visible?
Botulinum Toxin Type A effects are visible after 4 days to 2 weeks. Some people respond faster, some longer.
Effects of Fillers are immediate. For example a laugh line which was there is simply not there anymore. It is very satisfying.
14. How long will the improvement last?
Botulinum Toxin Type A from 4-8 months, Restylane up to a year, Juvederm up to 2 years, Artecoll and Aquamid forever.
15. What imperfections can you correct?
With Botulinum Toxin Type A:
“frown lines”- (perpendicular lines and folds between the eyebrows),
horizontal forehead lines and folds,
“Crow’s feet” around the eyes,
drooping eyelids (horizontal forehead lines and folds and “Crow’s feet” together will effectively lift eyelids)
horizontal neck lines
With Fillers
Laugh lines around the mouth (naso-labial folds)
wrinkles above the upper lip
wrinkles under lower lip
lines on the cheek,
lines under the chin
lips
any indented scars and marks (but not acne scars)
earlobe wrinkles
any creases that may remain 3 weeks after Botulinum Toxin Type A procedures.
16. Botulinum Toxin Type A does not work for me. Why?
Typical reasons for the procedures to not work are:
-Antibiotics,
-alcohol use by patient before or after the time of the procedure (4 hour --abstinence is indicated).
-inadequate portions were utilized;
Botuline Toxin Solution was improperly prepared (it is diluted with saline solution).
Improperly stored,
17. There is a good effect but some wrinkles still remain, why and what could be done?
Potentially an inadequate amount of material was used and/or very deep creases required additional material. These creases can be filled out with Temporary Filler. Note: NEVER use permanent filler for forehead lines.
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So you are considering injections to smooth out your wrinkles, expression lines, or in general you wish to rejuvenate your appearance without invasive surgery?
GO FOR IT, YOU WILL BE THRILLED!
Do not deny yourself these miraculous results which can never be achieved by any creams, no matter how expensive or how diligently applied! Two types of injections are usually used for different groups of wrinkles and lines. Botulinum Toxin Type A ( Botox® - USA, Dysport® – France) and Fillers such as Restylane®, Perlane®, Juvederm® Aquamid® or Artecoll® (or any other trade name they use. Trade names change from country to country but Fillers or Implants are basically the same and are injected in the same way- to fill the wrinkles and folds under the skin). All of these injections are safe and virtually painless.
1. Botulinum Toxin Type A.
(Botulinum Toxin Type A® BOTOX-US and DYSPORT® France) is a miracle drug, amazingly effective and completely safe. It not only lifts the forehead and eyelids but, opens the eyes, smoothes the skin with a youthful glow, and most importantly prevents the formation of new lines!
Botulinum Toxin Type A is injected into the muscles responsible for facial expressions. The muscles that lift eyebrows up (surprise, question, etc,) or those which move eyebrows closer together, or those that lift cheeks to create a smile, are responsible for horizontal and perpendicular lines above the nose (frown lines), or “crows feet”. Botulinum Toxin Type A, when injected into those muscles, weakens them, allowing for a larger muscle in the forehead to more effectively “pull” the forehead up. This effect is called the “Botox Lift” which essentially reverses the effects of gravity. Your skin is not being constantly creased by unconscious mobility and heals itself. The effect is phenomenal and usually gives us a lot of joy- since the face does not change as may happen with surgery, just goes back in time- we really see ourselves as we remember from 10-15 years ago!
2. Fillers Temporary or Permanent.
Botulinum Toxin Type A is recommended for the upper part of the face and neck.
Fillers are recommended for the lower part of the face creased which need to be filled out.
Temporary Fillers are either Collagen or Hyaluronic Acid Gel. In Europe, Restylane, Perlane (Sweden) or Juvederm (France) are used. Permanent Filler Artecoll (Holland) or Aquamid (Switzerland) have been used for many years. Permanent Fillers are used mainly for correcting and shaping the lips.
HERE ARE THE ANSWERS:
Is it safe?
Yes, these materials have been used in medicine for a long time for other conditions. During its use, it was discovered that wrinkles vanish in the sites of injections.
(This is the case with Botulinum Toxin Type A- It was originally used around the eyes in patients suffering from blepharospasms- incontrollable “winking”. A desirable side effect was discovered that “crow’s feet” disappeared completely as a result of the injections.
Only Collagen requires an allergy test a month in advance of an injection, therefore other Fillers are more popular now.
2. What about the drooping eye lid, which I have heard may happen?
First of all it is not the eyelid- it is the eyebrow.
In reality, dropping “eyelids’ are usually caused by the patients themselves who either bend down, lie down or massage the area within 4 hours after the injections into the forehead.
Regardless, this condition is easily corrected by injecting horizontally high under the hairline above the affected brow.
If the doctor has not warned you, don’t pay for correction.
If he did, you pay.
3. I hear that injections (apart of Permanent Fillers) should be repeated periodically. Will my skin become worse if I don’t?
Botulinum Toxin Type A works from 3 to 8 months depending on the individual. Mobility to the area slowly returns, but the wrinkles and creases do not reappear for another 2 to 4 months. Therefore your skin never becomes worse, even after Botulinum Toxin Type A stopped working (meaning muscles slowly regained their initial strength), your skin still looks smother and younger than before!
4. How often should I repeat the injections?
Some more good news, you don’t hear this often from doctors who inject it- either they do not know it, or they want you to come and pay more often. Yes, it is good to repeat injections 6 months after the first procedure, but Botulinum Toxin Type A ACCUMULATES. Afterwards, your next injection should be after about 8 months, and afterwards, once a year is sufficient and the amounts used will be smaller. Gauge it for yourself- YOU decide when you need to repeat the procedure. Don’t worry, Botulinum Toxin Type A produces uniform excellent results always. However, TRY NOT TO INJECT BOTULINUM TOXIN TYPE A TOO OFTEN. Overindulgence and many repeated procedures within short time periods can result in a type of “resistance” to the injections with the result of a weaker muscle response to the injections and with effects lasting shorter.
In conclusion, try to space your treatments out - with the second procedure 6 months after the initial injections and the third procedure 8 months after the second. From then on, yearly procedures should suffice. Wrinkles start to become etched in. Botulinum Toxin Type A will reverse it anyway.
5. Am I too young?
Our patients range in age from 16 to 86 years old. If someone wants to get rid of an imperfection why not, there are no medical indications of not having these procedures done. During pregnancy no procedures should be done.
6. Am I too old?
Botulinum Toxin Type A produces especially good results in older people. The reason is that weaker muscles and thinner skin react even more favorable to the injections.
7. I am pregnant, can I have these procedures done?
No. Please stay away from all elective procedures!
8. Do the injections hurt?
Botulinum Toxin Type A is almost painless. Ice is applied just before the procedure to numb the surface of the skin. Surprise- injections around the eyes are often completely painless- due to the minimal amount of nerve endings in this area.
Needles should be 30G- the thinnest available- Fillers do hurt somewhat. Procedures of implantation take longer, medical materials injected have a gel like consistency, and therefore thicker needles are used. Temporary Fillers used Hyaluronic acid which stings. We use not only numbing gel, but also “top off” the syringe with a small amount of local anesthetic. Permanent Fillers also hurt because they add volume pushing on the nerve endings inside. Do ask for an injection of a tiny bit of local anesthetic. Good news is that pain is felt only while the filler is coming out of the syringe under the skin. It stops immediately after the needle is withdrawn and there is no pain after the procedure.
9. How should I prepare for the procedure?
You cannot be taking antibiotics if you are going to have Botulinum Toxin Type A injected. It will not work. Antibiotics kill Botulinum Toxin Type A. It is OK to have Botulinum Toxin Type A done a minimum of 3 days after taking antibiotics. Important – do not drink alcohol within 4 hours before and after injections, even if your doctor does not warn you. Botulinum Toxin Type A results will not be as good as they should be.
If you are going to have Restylane®, Juvederm® Aquamid® or Artecoll® injected, do not take aspirin or any blood thinners. Do take Vitamin C for a week before your scheduled procedure to minimize bruising.
10. How long does the procedure take?
Botulinum Toxin Type A injections take only a few minutes. That is all it takes for a needle to be in and out 5-8 times. An experienced MD does it very fast.
Implants take about 20 minutes to perform. Shaping of the lips takes about 15 minutes for each lip.
11. How will I look after the procedure?
After Botulinum Toxin Type A there might be redness in the points of injection. It disappears after about 15 minutes. Small bruises might appear the next day, but can be concealed with makeup. You can resume your activities right away.
Fillers will show immediate improvement in the appearance of the skin. The shape of the lips will be corrected. There may be swelling that will disappear in a day or two. Bruising might appear, but not necessarily. Nothing should prevent you from your daily activities.
12. How should I behave after the procedure?
After Botulinum Toxin Type A, do not lie down, bend down or massage places where procedures were performed. Also, do not drink any alcoholic beverages for 4 hours after the procedure.
After Fillers there are special instructions outside of not applying anything to the injection site for the rest of the day to avoid infection.
13. When is the best effect visible?
Botulinum Toxin Type A effects are visible after 4 days to 2 weeks. Some people respond faster, some longer.
Effects of Fillers are immediate. For example a laugh line which was there is simply not there anymore. It is very satisfying.
14. How long will the improvement last?
Botulinum Toxin Type A from 4-8 months, Restylane up to a year, Juvederm up to 2 years, Artecoll and Aquamid forever.
15. What imperfections can you correct?
With Botulinum Toxin Type A:
“frown lines”- (perpendicular lines and folds between the eyebrows),
horizontal forehead lines and folds,
“Crow’s feet” around the eyes,
drooping eyelids (horizontal forehead lines and folds and “Crow’s feet” together will effectively lift eyelids)
horizontal neck lines
With Fillers
Laugh lines around the mouth (naso-labial folds)
wrinkles above the upper lip
wrinkles under lower lip
lines on the cheek,
lines under the chin
lips
any indented scars and marks (but not acne scars)
earlobe wrinkles
any creases that may remain 3 weeks after Botulinum Toxin Type A procedures.
16. Botulinum Toxin Type A does not work for me. Why?
Typical reasons for the procedures to not work are:
-Antibiotics,
-alcohol use by patient before or after the time of the procedure (4 hour --abstinence is indicated).
-inadequate portions were utilized;
Botuline Toxin Solution was improperly prepared (it is diluted with saline solution).
Improperly stored,
17. There is a good effect but some wrinkles still remain, why and what could be done?
Potentially an inadequate amount of material was used and/or very deep creases required additional material. These creases can be filled out with Temporary Filler. Note: NEVER use permanent filler for forehead lines.
Please our e-commerce site www.wrinklewizard.com
If you have a question you wish us to answer- please contact us at: support@wrinklewizard.biz
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you have a question you wish us to answer- please contact us at: support@wrinklewizard.biz