Thursday, January 28, 2010

Fight Wrinkles with Botox in San Diego

Who came up up with the idea of squirting botulism into someone's forehead to reduce wrinkles? Botox San Diego Is it really that much stranger than using bread mold to reduce infection? Of course it's not as easy as directly injecting canned yams gone bad.

Board certified plastic surgeon Amir Karam of Carmel Valley Facial Plastic Surgery says, "Botox® Cosmetic is a purified protein produced by the Clostridium Botulinum bacteria that decreases the activity of wrinkle-forming muscles." The folks who figured out that this protein could smooth wrinkles started out using it as a treatment for face and neck muscle spasms. Like so many other discoveries, the protein's usefulness in reducing wrinkles was noticed as a side effect.

The botulinum protein works by blocking the nerve terminals for the wrinkling muscles from receiving certain neurotransmitters. A few drops of Botox® in San Diego is enough to be effective for several months.

Learn more by visiting DrKaram.com

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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Have You Ever Consideres Tissue Fillers And Other Injectables?

Do you have moderate or fine wrinkles on your face that you would like to get rid of? Do you have augment lips or facial depressions that make you look older than you really are? All of these things can be corrected with these different Tissue fillers and Injectables.

Hylauronic Acid Fillers like Juvederm®, Perlane® and Restylane® are very good for this these types of problems and can correct all of these issues.

Radiesse® is a tissue filler that once injected, it works below the skin to stimulate the production of your own collagen, causing your face to attain a more filled out appearance.

Many other ways of treating these issues can be read about on this site I found and it should be very useful in helping people learn more about these types of procedures.

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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Fill In Your Sunken Cheeks

In the medical world, the fat-injection procedure is known as autologous fat transplantation or microlipoinjection. It involves extracting fat cells from the patient's abdomen, thighs, buttocks or elsewhere and reinjecting them beneath the facial skin. Fat is most often used to fill in "sunken" cheeks or laugh lines between the nose and mouth, to correct skin depressions or indentations, to minimize forehead wrinkles and to enhance the lips.

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Thursday, February 5, 2009

Treat Unwanted Wrinkles on the Face and Neck with Injectables

The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery ranked BOTOX® Cosmetic as the most popular physician-administered aesthetic procedure in the United States for the fourth year in a row.

Botox® is used to treat unwanted wrinkles on the face and neck. Botox is used to treat dynamic wrinkles (motion wrinkles). These wrinkles are caused by contraction of the facial muscles. After time, this repeated muscle contractions results in permanent wrinkles (static wrinkles). Static wrinkles are defined as lines and creases that remain on the skin even when the face is not moving. Botox has revolutionized our ability to treat dynamic wrinkles of the face.

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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Could Injectables be for you?

The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery ranked BOTOX® Cosmetic as the most popular physician-administered aesthetic procedure in the United States for the fourth year in a row.

Botox® is used to treat unwanted wrinkles on the face and neck. Botox is used to treat dynamic wrinkles (motion wrinkles). These wrinkles are caused by contraction of the facial muscles. After time, this repeated muscle contractions results in permanent wrinkles (static wrinkles). Static wrinkles are defined as lines and creases that remain on the skin even when the face is not moving. Botox has revolutionized our ability to treat dynamic wrinkles of the face.

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