When the first fine lines and wrinkles start to appear around your eyes, at your lips, or even across your brow, you may try to combat them by drinking more water, moisturizing more, or even performing more aggressive exfoliation for skin renewal. While all of these things are certainly worthwhile efforts, the unique cause of dynamic wrinkles like crow’s feet and frown lines make them most responsive to BOTOX. This is a powerful, injectable neurotoxin that’s been used to rejuvenate the visage for over three decades. Following are three reasons you might want to give the BOTOX NYC spas are offering a try.
BOTOX Addresses Dynamic Wrinkles Right At Their Source
Dynamic wrinkles are wrinkles that are caused by movement. When they appear at the brow, lips, or eyes, they are specifically caused by expressive facial movement. Throughout your life, smiling, laughing, frowning, furrowing your brow and other like activities have been creating a build-up of tension in select expressive muscles across your face. Over time, the stress of this tension gradually causes cracks to develop in the smooth layer of collagen that underlies and supports your skin. When your face is relaxed, this collagen is allowed to lie smooth. When your expressive muscles are engaged, however, the newly formed cracks appear at the surface skin in the form of visible creases. This is why dynamic wrinkles like frown lines and crow’s feet are only apparent when people are actually frowning or smiling. BOTOX works by temporarily releasing the muscles that are responsible for the development of cracked collagen. This way, the underlying collagen can always maintain its smooth and unblemished appearance, even when local muscles are engaged.
There Is Virtually No Downtime With A BOTOX Treatment
One of the best reasons for using BOTOX is the fact that it doesn’t require a lot of downtime. In most instances, these treatments take between just 15 and 20 minutes. Moreover, they are essentially pain-free. Your doctor can apply a light, topical numbing agent or ice so that the treated skin is less sensitive when the injections are performed. Small amounts of BOTOX are inserted directly into the dermis using a very fine-tipped needle. In fact, the needles used in these treatments are much like the tiny needles that individuals with diabetics use when performing their own at-home insulation injections. As soon as the necessary BOTOX injections are done, patients can typically return to their normal activities right away. That’s why this procedure is sometimes referred to as a lunchtime face lift. It is so quick and easy that you can have it done right during your lunch hour.
The Results Are Only Temporary
The BOTOX NYC procedure last between three and six months. After this time, the neurotoxin is broken down and routed out of the body. Due to this fact, there is never any real risk of getting permanently stuck with treatment results that you don’t approve of. If you like how you look after your procedure, you can always have your injections repeated as necessary.