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Botox
Dr Marcinkus turns the ordinary into a work of art. Since FDA approval in 2002 of the use of Botox for treating facial frown lines, literally millions of the injections have been administered. But Dr Marcinkus is never satisfied with repeating a procedure simply because it has been administered a million time before. If a course of botox injections seems right for you, then rest assured that Dr Marcinkus will have made certain that it is a procedure he can recommend specifically for you. Botox is administered as a simple, non-surgical treatment that can temporarily smooth out moderate to severe frown lines between the brows or around the eyes of people aged 18 to 65 years. It is the only treatment of its type to be approved by the FDA. In 2005 alone, almost 3.3 million botox procedures were performed. In a Botox treatment, Dr Marcinkus will make a series of injections of a diluted form of the drug into the patient's facial muscles. Over the next four days, the botox (a purified protein produced by the Clostridium botulinum bacterium) paralyzes the muscles that control facial wrinkling, not only stopping more wrinkles, but eradicating existing ones. The skin does not feel numb to the patient, nor does it change in texture. Results can last up to 4 months, but this can vary. The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery has ranked botox as the most popular physician-administered aesthetic procedure in the United States for the fourth year in a row (surgical and non-surgical combined). Following are just a few illustrations of the results of botox injections:
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