Botulinum Toxin - TOXINA BOTULÍNICA - CLINIC OF MEDICINE IN CHEERFUL PORT

    The expression marks appear in the face, in the form of furrows or wrinkles. They are provoked by the action of the expression muscles. The use of these muscles varies of a person for other. Some people use much more and other less people. What happens along the time is that the muscle being contracted repeated times is hipertrofiado and with the increased (Tônus is the contraction degree that does stay in the muscle in rest) tonicity. Everything happens as if the muscle of the expression had been submitted to a muscular activity program. This hipertrofia forms furrows and wrinkles that appear in way very marked in the moment of the expression and it stays, a little less marked, same when she are not contracting the muscle. Those furrows and wrinkles stay exactly for the effect of the hipertrofia and of the muscular tônus. In the course of time the skin is broken and the wrinkles are more accentuated and marked. The action of the solar light, provoking the fotoenvelhecimento, it removes the elasticity of the skin.

    The toxin botulínica Botulinum Toxin, that is a substance produced by the bacterium Clostridium Botulinum, he/she has a potent action, but used in small doses, he/she doesn't make any badly, and it can improve the aspects of facial aging. The dose used for aesthetic ends is from 25 to 50 units and the one that makes to the human being badly is of 3000 units. The small amount used with aesthetic ends obtains the effects without dangers for the health.

    Botulinum Toxin is used to correct the expression wrinkles. The wrinkles of the forehead, the furrow between the brows and the famous chicken" "feet can be benefitted with the method. Other areas can also be treated. The technique consists of injecting the substance in the muscle whose hipertrofia and tônus provoke the emergence of the wrinkles. It is obtained like this a temporary (obviously, of unnecessary muscles) paralysis, with the disappearance of the lightest wrinkles and reduction of the deepest.

    We applied Botulinum Toxin everywhere with efficiency of the face, could be used with a great treatment for hiperidrose palmar and axillary.

    The Result of the muscular paralysis with the Botulinum Toxin happens in maximum 3 days, being the finishing touch happens in the 20 day in case some exists asymmetry, what is rare.