With all the hype and fuss over people getting Botox injections for everything from a sagging chin to a droopy eyelid, one has to wonder just what it is that Botox does and how it works. Despite its recent rise to fame, the original research into botox is a few decades old.

The original intent for the research into Botulinum toxin was to try and treat disorders of the mind in the 1960’s. For patients suffering with uncontrollable blinking and crossed eyes, a treatment finally came in 1989 when the FDA granted approval for botox to be used on these patients and also for wrinkles.

In the year 2000 it was approved to treat cervical dystonia which is a disorder that causes severe neck and shoulder contractions and also a very unusual side effect of eye disorder treatments. The strange discovery they made quite by accident was one that help to reduce the visible lines between the eyebrows and after this in 2002 the FDA approved it’s use on this condition, botox as a cosmetic procedure, was born.

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When Botox is injected into the muscles of the forehead, it blocks nerve impulses which results in the weakening of the muscles that cause frowning and eventually over a period of several months, given enough of these injections, the frown lines start to soften. With continued use, the frown lines in most instances will completely vanish but the same effect can be found in lines at the sides of the eyes, mouth and other forehead lines.

Botulinum toxin can be deadly and at the very least make us unwell but when it is used in cosmetic procedures, the form used is one that has been cleaned up and diluted, posing no threat. The reason people want to use botox injections is because every time you laugh, smile, frown, or for that matter do just about anything with your facial muscles, wrinkles are caused by the underlying contractions of these muscles.

After years of making these expressions the wear and tear on your face begins to be noticeable and the lines start to become permanent and when these creases become permanent, no kind of skin cream can get rid of them but botox can eliminate them temporarily. After being injected into the effected area, it temporarily paralyzes these muscles so that you can’t make these expressions and that’s why people who have had Botox injections can look like mannequins.

People still have enough movement to look fairly normal but not enough to cause these wrinkles; so in fact by taking these Botox injections they make you look younger. Some will be happy that the people who can afford botox treatments are still the wealthy and with individual treatments in the low to very high hundreds of dollars it looks to remain that way.

There is always some concern about new treatments and botox is no exception with many people worried about the long term effects of botox injections but even so this has not stopped its popularity.

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