Anti Wrinkle Injections Canberra

Wrinkle Reduction Treatments are produced by a bacterium, and it was first used in humans for the treatment of strabismus (“crossed-eyes”) in 1978. It is now used to treat a number of medical conditions including cerebral palsy, migraine, excessive sweating, wry neck, back and facial muscle spasms as well as the treatment of facial wrinkles.

Wrinkle Reduction Treatments are one of the most widely researched medicines in the world with twenty approved indications in more than seventy-five countries. Wrinkle Reduction Treatments are a simple, quick and minimally invasive treatment that delivers fast, visible results.

Frown lines (wrinkles between the eyebrows), crow’s feet (wrinkles around the eyes) and forehead lines (wrinkles on the forehead) appear because of persistent small muscle contractions. Wrinkles that are caused by persistent small muscle contractions can be treated with Injectable Muscle Relaxants

You will be able to continue with your usual daily routine after your appointment, as recovery is quite minimal, with only small bumps or the rarer case of minor bruising. Any bumps should subside 15 to 20 minutes after treatment, and bruising should fade within a week. Your Cosmos Clinic Canberra nurse or doctor will instruct you on how to properly care for your treatment area. Recovery instructions, or tips, might be to:

• Take a break from strenuous exercise
• Ensure that the treated areas are clean
• Move the muscles in your treated area within the first few hours after treatment, to increase the action and onset of the injections
• Avoid touching or rubbing the treatment areas
• Avoid areas where you will be excessively exposed to heat for a few days after treatment, such as saunas

You can expect to see results within five to seven days after treatment, as the muscle relaxing effects gradually begin to work. Full treatment results will then be visible at about two weeks, with the effects still developing. The effect should persist for three to eight months, with patients typically requiring treatments about two to three times per year to maintain results long-term.

Cosmos Clinic Canberra recommends that patients return to the clinic for their complimentary follow-up appointment to assess the results.

If you have bothersome expression lines or you look tired even if you’re not, you are a good candidate for treatment. Wrinkle Reduction Treatments can effectively treat frown lines, forehead wrinkles, crow’s feet, droopy eyebrows, smoker’s line or bunny lines.

Other areas that can benefit from neuromodulator injections are a wide or square jaw and excessive sweating (hyperhidrosis). Patients that are in good physical health, are not pregnant or nursing, and do not have a history of neuromuscular disease should be medically cleared for treatment.

Treatment with Wrinkle Reduction Treatments is minimally invasive and is linked with only minor side effects, as the injections target specific muscles, and will not be absorbed by the bloodstream. The minor and temporary side effects or complications include:

• Temporary and minimal swelling, small bumps, or slight redness that should subside within hours or days
• Bruising or temporary discolouration
• The requirement for a revision treatment if the muscles need to be weakened more
• Droopy eyelids, or ptosis, that normally resolves on its own after several weeks
• Heavy brows or a droopy forehead, a complication that can be prevented by selecting a clinic with experienced nurses and doctors

Results typically last three to six months. After this, results are maintainable long-term with repeated treatments. An advantage of Wrinkle Reduction Treatments is that they are not permanent, allowing patients to return to normal should they chose to stop undergoing wrinkle removal treatment.

Even then, the fine lines and wrinkles can be less noticeable than they originally were, as the skin would have had a break from creasing in the treatment areas for the time that the effects were active.

By treating the muscle with Wrinkle Reduction Treatments, it will weaken the muscle over time. This means that the lines will not be as bad when the Wrinkle Reduction Treatment wears off. Also when the lines are relaxed, collagen remodelling repairs the damaged collagen beneath the wrinkle line and “fills in” those lines. This effect becomes more apparent with repeated injections and in many cases causes the lines to disappear over time.

Recent clinical trials show promising results in the next generation of Wrinkle Reduction Treatments lasting at least 6 months in duration.

True allergic reactions to Wrinkle Reduction Treatments have not been observed. Patients with neuromuscular disorders such as myesthenia gravis should not be treated with Wrinkle Reduction Treatments. No side effects from Wrinkle Reduction Treatments have been reported when pregnant or nursing women have been inadvertently treated, although safety during pregnancy or lactation (breastfeeding) has not been firmly established.

It is not absorbed by the blood stream and only affects the muscles injected. Wrinkle Reduction Treatments are eliminated from the body in a few days but the machinery required for the nerve impulse to travel to the muscle is disabled for three to four months. No serious or long-term health hazards have been attributed to the use of Wrinkle Reduction Treatments, even after years of use and millions of injections. However, some mild transient side effects can occur. These include:

• Mild swelling or redness at the injection site, which will settle within a few hours
• Bruising at the injection site can occur but is not common. This can be avoided by the application of ice packs prior to the injection and by carefully inspecting the area to be injected for blood vessels. The bruising settles in two to six days and can be covered with makeup. Smile lines are an area typically affected by bruising
• Occasionally, the injected muscles will not be weakened enough and touch up injections will be needed for correction after two weeks
• Drooping of the upper eyelid, which can last up to three weeks, is rare. This may be treated with eye drops until it resolves by itself, typically after a few days
• Drooping of the forehead can occur if too much of the Wrinkle Reduction Treatment is put in this area