Currently, there are many ways to preserve female youth and beauty. Anti-aging procedures in the salon are in great demand, despite the high prices and possible risks.
However, before resorting to drastic measures, you should learn about the intricacies of various procedures. For example, the currently popular botulinum therapy is what it is and what contraindications it has. In addition, it is important to know exactly what effect can be expected after such a serious intervention.
Botulinum therapy - what is it?
Beauticians are working tirelessly on the development of new methods for prolonging youth. Since wrinkles excite almost every woman, botulinum facial therapy has gained great popularity. It is believed that this procedure is a real salvation for the fair sex, who strive for an impeccable appearance.
The effect of smoothing expression wrinkles is achieved by introducing unique products under the skin. Botulinum therapy has become a new era in this area. What it is can be explained quite simply: botulinum toxins have an active effect on facial wrinkles.
Preparations for the procedure
Since botulinum therapy in cosmetology involves the injection of certain drugs, before you try the procedure on yourself, it is useful to find out the advantages and disadvantages of different compounds. For example, Lantox is a drug based on highly purified protein. The active substance in this tool is botulism type A sticks, neurotoxins. In addition, the preparation contains: sucrose, gelatin, dextran. Another substance actively used for injection is Xeomin. It has a similar composition and effect, but differs in the absence of protein. This is considered a significant advantage of the drug. As an auxiliary component, human albumin is present in it. After the injection , the facial muscles responsible for facial expressions are blocked. As a result, the muscle contracts much less, which allows you to restore skin elasticity and smooth wrinkles on the face.
That is, the mechanism is to relax the muscles, relieve overvoltage and new formation of facial wrinkles. The result of the procedure can be seen in a couple of weeks, and the achieved effect will last from three months to six months.
A similar method for a long time to influence the facial muscles has not yet been invented. That is why botulinum therapy is so popular. Reviews confirm a good result and lasting effect.
Today there is no other quick, effective and lasting effect on facial expressions .
Who can do the injection?
Young girls do not need such a procedure, but after reaching a certain age and the appearance of pronounced wrinkles, you can try Botex.
It is recommended for women who have noticed:
- Expression wrinkles on the nose, forehead and in the corners of the eyes.
- The omission of the corners of the lips, platysma on the neck.
- Purse-string wrinkles, an urgent need to change the shape of eyebrows or lips.
Also, an injection will help to correct the irregular shape of the face, chronic scars on the body, and reduce excessive sweating.
Botulinum therapy can solve all the problems listed above. What it is has been explained above. The effect of botulinum therapy is quite extensive, which explains the amazing popularity.
How does an injection work?
The introduction of botulinum toxin blocks the work of muscles, causing their temporary paralysis, and stops the release of acetylcholine. This is an acetic acid ester, a neuromuscular mediator.
After the introduction of the drug, the facial muscles are temporarily immobilized, which prevents the appearance of new wrinkles and smoothes old ones. The advantage of this procedure is that it does not have an active effect on the nerves, does not damage them, and does not prevent the development of a neuromuscular mediator after the end of the injection. That is, facial wrinkles are smoothed out, but this does not violate the process of the human nervous system.
The injection takes place in several stages:
- At the first stage, the drug molecules begin to interact with the nerve endings responsible for the movement.
- After this, the composition is absorbed by the motor nerves, the muscles relax, the production of acetylcholine stops.
- Additional processes appear at the nerve endings.
- The synapse of the nervous system responsible for the movement of the facial muscles is modified.
- Transport proteins are updated and muscle contractions are restored.
Why the effect of the injection does not appear immediately?
Many women mistakenly believe that their wrinkles should miraculously smooth out immediately after the injection. In fact, this is not happening at all.
Although immobilization of the muscles occurs within a couple of hours after the administration of the drug, and their amplitude in this period of time has already managed to significantly decrease, but the final penetration of botulinum toxin occurs only after a few days. That is why the effect does not occur immediately.
Women after such procedures should not be upset that wrinkles did not disappear on the first day, because muscles are living matter that needs time to rebuild. The effect may appear in a week or even two, it all depends on the individual structure of the woman’s skin, as well as the dose of the drug administered.
How often can the procedure be applied?
The myth that this procedure is very harmful to the skin condition, has no reason. If we examine the skin and muscles after Botox injection under a microscope, we can conclude that the drug does not lead to complete muscle atrophy. The healthy process of their regeneration and the appearance of new small nerve endings does not stop after the injection. Therefore, cosmetologists assure that botulinum therapy can be a multiple and even regular procedure that does not harm health.
That is, the injection of such drugs gives women the opportunity to look brilliant constantly. Depending on the dosage of the drug and the individual structural features of the skin and muscles of a woman, one injection can maintain the achieved effect for three to twelve months. It takes so much time to restore the natural processes of the facial muscles and the emergence of new nerve endings. As soon as deterioration of the skin condition of the face and visualization of facial wrinkles become noticeable, the injection can be repeated.
Moreover, botulinum therapy, the price of which does not exceed 500 rubles per injection, will cost relatively inexpensively, and the effect after application will surely please the patient.
Recommendations after the injection
In order not to experience the complications of botulinum therapy, you should listen to the advice of specialists and strictly follow the following recommendations:
- It is very important not to take a horizontal position after the injection for 4-5 hours.
- Do not touch the face, and even more so at the injection site within 12 hours after the procedure.
- Do not experiment with facial expressions and try to make active movements with those facial muscles that have been injected.
- About two weeks after botulinum therapy, saunas and SPA procedures, the use of alcoholic beverages are contraindicated.
14 days after the injection, you need to visit a specialist and make sure that the procedure did not cause any negative reactions of the body.
Contraindications
Undoubtedly, all specialists undergo special training in botulinum therapy, the injection is completely safe and does not give the patient pain. Nevertheless, there are limitations and contraindications for certain categories of people. First of all, these are pregnant women and nursing mothers. Also, you should not give a Botox injection to those who have diseases of the neuromuscular system or inflammation in the facial muscles. Allergies, individual intolerances, poor blood coagulability, cancer of the patient are also contraindications to the injection.
Why the injection may not work?
Sometimes experts notice in some people insensitivity to the action of this drug. You can repeat the injection, increase the dosage of active substances, but the patient has no effect.
The fact is that there is a small percentage of the population on which Botox does not work. This is approximately 5% of all people on the planet. If a person is just one of them, then it makes no sense to go through the procedure.
Other anti-aging treatments
For unknown reasons, girls and women of all ages are very fond of changing their appearance, finding new flaws in what nature has been given to them. Lip contouring, rhinoplasty, coagulation, photorejuvenation, biorevitalization and many other procedures of plastic surgery and cosmetology are very successful today. This is not surprising, because women are very scrupulous in their appearance.
Rhinoplasty is an operation that allows you to change the shape of the nose, make it elegant, eliminate the hump or reduce the size. This operation is often resorted to by young girls, dissatisfied with their nose.
Another popular procedure for the fair sex is contouring of the lips. Now any lips can be made more plump and beautiful. First, a gel is introduced into this area, then, with the help of massage, the desired shape is given. As a result, the girl gets beautiful chubby lips, which make her whole image more expressive.
Laser coagulation helps get rid of unwanted age-related pigmentation on the skin. Biorevitalization eliminates wrinkles in the neckline, eliminates facial contour defects and a double chin. A photorejuvenation is effective against pigmentation, converts the facial contour and generally improves skin elasticity.
Currently, there are many different cosmetic procedures that can transform the fair sex. However, you should not use everything at once, because each procedure has its drawbacks and risks.