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How Skin Ages
In general, how skin ages and wrinkles is a complex process. Is
it just aging? Too much sun? Too much stress?
It isn't just about cellular changes, collagen depletion, hormone
loss, damage caused by free radicals, and so on;
it's a combination of many factors.
Anatomy of a Wrinkle
The lines that appear between your brows (glabellar lines) actually
result from muscle movement and the passage
of time. You may have heard the expression "wearing your emotions
on your sleeve," but in reality you wear them on
your face. If you're angry or annoyed, for example, you knit your
brows together. Underneath your skin, your facial
muscles contract, cause a pleating of the overlying skin, and then,
as anyone can see, you're frowning.
After years of crinkling and wrinkling, those glabellar lines start
to linger longer and can become more pronounced.
For women, whose faces tend to be more animated than men's, and
whose skin is typically more delicate, these
lines may appear exaggerated and more permanent.
A Solution for Wrinkles
Fortunately, there is a way to temporarily reduce moderate to severe
glabellar lines. Treatment with BOTOX® can
visibly smooth and soften moderate to severe frown lines between
your brows. An improvement can be seen within
days and may last up to 4 months, although results may vary. In
clinical trials, nearly 90% of men and women
surveyed rated the improvement in the appearance of frown lines
between their brows as moderate to better
one month after treatment.
Botox® Cosmetic is a simple, nonsurgical, physician-administered
treatment that can temporarily smooth moderate
to severe frown lines between the brows in people from 18 to 65
years of age. It
is the only treatment of its type
approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
One 10-minute treatment—a few tiny injections—and within
days there's a noticeable improvement in moderate to severe frown
lines between the brows, which can last up to 4 months. Results
may vary.
BOTOX® Cosmetic is a purified protein produced by the Clostridium
botulinum bacterium, which reduces the activity of the muscles that
cause those frown lines between the brows to form over time. Is
it safe? In 2005, almost 3.3 million procedures were performed with
FDA-approved BOTOX® Cosmetic.
Take a look at the men and women who've had BOTOX® Cosmetic
treatments, and see for yourself!
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Click here for the gallery.
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