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BoTox is rapidly becoming the latest craze amongst Sydney’s fashionable crowd in fact it is becoming a beauty routine essential for people in the Harbour City.

However I am always amazed by the rumours surrounding the treatment. I have included below some of the misunderstandings that I encounter working as a doctor at Star Cosmetic Medicine in Pyrmont, Sydney.

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Fallacy Number 1: My facial muscles may stiffen up!

There are about sixty muscles in the human face. These normally work harmoniously, but over a period of time lines can appear. If excessive BoTox is used the muscles of the face can sometimes become less taut. The amount used by nearly all physicians are calculated to make you look ‘refreshed’, nevertheless you will continue to be every bit as expressive.

So by using small amounts of the toxin in just the right muscles an expressive face is preserved whilst any fine lines and wrinkles undergo a softening effect.

Fallacy Number 2: BoTox is a toxin!
This to a small extent is correct. Its pharmaceutical term is Botulinum Toxin Type A. Too large a dose may relax muscles that you do not want loosened and can make one really ill.

But to put the matter into perspective: a famous chemist’s saying is that ‘everything is poisonous - it all depends on the dose’. A large amount of any medicine will result in sickness. In fact water can be a poison if enough is taken.

Fallacy Number 3: BoTox will hurt!
The hypodermic needles used at Star Cosmetic Medicine have a diameter smaller than a human hair. Some individuals have compared the treatments to a mosquito bite. It for certain is not as traumatic as a procedure like a blood test.

Fallacy Number 4: I will lose sensation in my face!
Totally incorrect. BoTox affects the junction between the nerve and the facial muscle, and not on the nerves of sensation. BoTox just targets the ability to relax muscular tissues.

Fallacy Number 5. Once you begin BoTox you have to continue otherwise you will have even worse wrinkles than before!
This is also false.

BoTox is thought to last for up to 3 months. Further injections do last longer. Eventually as muscle strength builds up again the lines will slowly reappear. But they will definitely not be any deeper than previously.

Even if you never have BoTox ever again - those lines should be less pronounced than if you hadn’t undergone the treatment. This is generally the case due to the fact you have allowed your skin to have a ‘wrinkle holiday’ during the therapy.