ADVANCED COSMETIC MEDICINE > Botulinum toxin

Type A botulinum toxin is the essential constituent of the well known BOTOX® (known as VISTABEL® in its cosmetic variant) This cosmetic treatment is probably the most used most widely used throughout the world and, especially, in this country. Despite the wide use of this treatment it still has many critics, who do not value the benefits of Botox®, clearly because they lack knowledge of the product and its excellent cosmetic effects.

Initially it was used to treat muscle spasms. Nowadays it is one of the treatments that offer the best results in the correction and elimination of expression lines, by infiltrating the muscle under the area of skin that we wish to treat with a very fine needle. The toxin acts by relaxing the muscle and thereby inhibiting muscular movement, thus making the wrinkle disappear and giving a youthful look to the skin.

It is used to treat:

• COSMETIC USE. The most widely used. Reduces wrinkles.
• HYPERHIDROSIS. Excess sweating, mainly in the armpits but also in hands and feet.
• TREATMENT OF MUSCULAR SPASMS Very common in patients suffering from cerebral palsy.
• STRABISMUS AND BLEPHAROSPASM Reduces the action of the ocular muscles in the treatment of strabismus and also spasms of the eyelids.
• MIGAINE. Especially for those migraines due to tension, as it reduces the activity of the cranial muscles, which are the cause of this type of headache.
• It is also being used in the treatment of URINARY INCONTINENCE, ANAL FISSURE, SPASTICITY produced by disorders of the central nervous system, MUSCULAR DYSTONIAS (face, jaws, masseter muscle and vocal chords) TEMPORO-MANDIBULAR PAIN, DIABETIC NEUROPATHY.