The use of Botox, or Botulinum toxin type A, applied to the facial cosmetics, joined it after many years of using this toxin to the muscle treatment of facial and eye disorders such as blepharospasm and strabismus. For over a decade, joined its cosmetics use for the treatment of facial wrinkles, and its use has been spread to treat conditions such as migraine headaches, sweating hands, armpits and feet, among others.

This treatment is used to lessen the force of the facial muscles that cause wrinkles in different places of the face, by injecting botulinium toxin type A. The toxin must be applied in the exact muscle that you want to treat; in a dose that the doctor may consider after studying each particular case. The effect on the facial muscle treated starts to be noticed at the 48 hours of the application and has its maximum effect after a week. At that time the wrinkles will disappear and the lifting of the eyebrows, facial commissures and the bands in the neck muscles can be done. This treatment properly applied must last from 5 to 6 months, after this period of time you should perform a new application.

It is important that you perform this procedure with qualified medical personnel to avoid complications that are not reversible until losing the effect of the toxin.