Pakenham Medical Clinic Offers Anti-wrinkle Injections and Facial Rejuvenation Treatment
Anti-wrinkle injections have long been used to reduce wrinkles, crow’s feet among other skin problems like smoker’s lines, pebbly chin, frown lines, and bunny lines. These injections have a neurotoxin that helps relax the underlying small muscles below the skin. This, in turn, makes the lines and wrinkles go away.
Our experienced doctors at Pakenham Medical Clinic offer anti-wrinkle injections at the practice.
Anti-wrinkle injections are quick and take little to no time to administer, approximately less than fifteen minutes. The results also last long upto six months. The treatment can also be used with other options like dermal fillers to treat static as well as dynamic wrinkles.
Frequently Asked Questions
An Anti-wrinkle Injection is a liquid medicine that consists of chemical neurotoxins made from a bacteria. The bacteria in its original form can be life threatening and lead to deadly paralysis or other serious concerns. However, for medicinal purposes, the neurotoxin is cleansed and made safe as an injectional medicine.
It’s safe as a medicine and is required to be used in little quantities with injections made in certain parts of the body.
Anti-wrinkle injections are meant to treat wrinkles that are formed through muscle contractions of the face. The injectable, safe neurotoxin helps stop any impulse going from the nerves to muscles. This inhibits them from contraction and stops wrinkle formation.
A common example is usage of anti-wrinkle injections in order to relax frown muscles to be able to prevent vertical frown line appearance. It’s also used at the corner to prevent crow’s feet from forming near the eyes.
For static lines visible, anti-wrinkle injections don’t rapidly erase the lines that are immediately visible when the face is resting. For treating facial lines that stay visible when the face is resting, the use of dermal fillers is encouraged. Doctors might otherwise also suggest skin resurfacing.
Another benefit anti-wrinkle injections offer is that the top skin later gets to heal because of relaxed muscles. This reduces the wrinkled appearance and further prevents permanent etching wrinkles from forming later on.
The toxin namely Botulinum for the time being paralyses certain facial muscles that does the job of pulling or contracting your skin which brings wrinkles. Once injected, it allows the skin to flatten.
Since the anti-wrinkle treatment aims at certain, individual muscles it helps you form most of the facial expressions without tightening.
The toxin namely Botulinum for the time being paralyses certain facial muscles that does the job of pulling or contracting your skin which brings wrinkles. Once injected, it allows the skin to flatten.
Since the anti-wrinkle treatment aims at certain, individual muscles it helps you form most of the facial expressions without tightening.
The potential side-effects pertaining to the treatment are minimal. Patients can experience mild swelling or short-term redness which subside in an hour or less. Occasionally, one may witness little bruising which could last for 2-3 days to at most a week.
A rarely-caused condition namely ptosis or droopy eyelid may appear and can last for a month. However, as a temporary solution medical eye drops are available to reverse ptosis.
Due to the Botulinum toxin you will experience positive results in terms of visibility but the facial appearance might not change. Particular set of muscles that bring frown lines won’t remain a lot active but you will be able to express, look natural and normal.
The anti-wrinkle treatment, when performed under a licenced medical profession is considered safe. Since there are certain side-effects associated with the usage of neurotoxin injections as medicine similar to other treatments, most of them are short-term, mild, and subside eventually.
While there’s certainly discomfort with injections, such issues can be minimised greatly with the help of a cold pack or topical anaesthesia applied before the treatment begins.
The whole process is relatively quick. Most patients can come in and be out of the door in under five minutes from being administered. The treatment also doesn’t require any downtime.
The treatment is commonly injected near the eyes (nearby the crow’s feet and surrounding lower eyelid fine lines). It’s injected in the forehead above the patient’s eyebrows and mouth surrounding the lips or edges. Injections can also be administered in the chin, neck and cheek.
The neurotoxin used in the injections is used to treat a number of different concerns like axillary hyperhidrosis or excessively sweaty armpits. The specific condition which affect a minority of the whole population doesn’t respond well to antiperspirants
The substance has to be injected in sweat glands controlling nerves to prevent activity. This greatly reduces the excessive sweat produced by the armpits.
The treatment when done following the right procedure can last anywhere from 4 to 6 months. The results produced differ from patient to patient based on different factors.
Costs differ mainly on the patient’s medical history, the area to be treated and other protocols. Consultations can however be bulk-billed.
It’s always best to discuss this with your doctor to get the right estimate on costs.
