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...Call it the Zoom effect, but since Covid, procedures have grown particularly fast in the face and neck: injections such as Botox have increased by 73 per cent, and cheek implants by 150 per cent....
...Botox is administered as an injection that temporarily “paralyses” the wrinkle-causing muscle: it blocks the neurotransmitter signals from nerves that cause muscles to contract....
...The American Society of Plastic Surgeons reports that in 2020, some 12,000 cosmetic botox injections were carried out on teenagers. If they follow the trend, those numbers will rise....
...Alongside this is a hair and skincare menu including Botox, microneedling, and fillers....
...Neither can I countenance the thought of anti-ageing injections....
...“She has been receiving Botox injections regularly but she’s just taken a month of leave from work to get her nose and chin done,” said a woman in her sixties, waiting for her daughter....
...Profhilo — injections of hyaluronic acid (a moisture-binding molecule we produce in our bodies) beneath the skin to prompt it to make more collagen and elastin — is one of many newly offered “tweakments”...
...Botox can fill even the most obstinate wrinkles but the botulinum toxin contained in injections can cause unexpected sagging too....
...injections and chemical peels....
...And if “hot” brings money, then money also brings “hot” in the shape of Trey (Will Brittain), a faux-naïf 20-year-old Oklahoman himbo with whom the 70-year-old Elliot shares his life, regular Botox injections...
...In two large clinical trials, the injections suppressed frown lines for six months, compared to up to four months for Botox....
...Its lead story, “Brother on Sunday”, begins with Tom, a plastic surgeon, topping up his own Botox injections, so we know our general territory right away....
...Thanks to a new wave of Instagrammers, our attitude towards needles, whether for Botox, fillers or facials, has gone from gruesome to awesome!...
...(Nikkei Asian Review) Beauty contest brouhaha An annual beauty contest in Saudi Arabia sparked controversy after 12 contestants were disqualified for having Botox injections to improve their pout....
...The trial missed its main target, which was to show that Botox could meaningfully reduce depression after six weeks compared with a placebo injection....
...Restasis, a treatment for dry eye, is Allergan’s top-selling drug after its wrinkle injection Botox, generating almost $1.5bn in sales last year and accounting for about 10 per cent of overall revenues....
...“I tend to do more bespoke perfume work in LA these days because the women have had so many injections I’m scared to touch their faces,” she says of the profusion of filler and Botox-injected clients she...
...However, the company has had less success with Kybella, a fat-killing injection for double chins it acquired for $2.1bn in 2015....
...Health start-ups have also pushed into consumer services, offering over-the-counter medicines or paid-for services such as Botox injections....
...That was predicated on high prices: Eylea costs about $1,800 per injection and Lucentis $2,000....
...She spent thousands more on Botox, lip injections, boxing classes and a personal trainer who helped her drop 10 pounds in advance of the three-day-long concert in the California desert....
...A friendly deal with Botox maker Allergan — which wants to exit generics to focus on more profitable branded medicines — seemed ideal....
...The company has not announced pricing, and is currently giving dermatologists training on how to use the treatment, which is administered via a series of injections over several months....
...Having pulled off the biggest takeover of last year, Allergan, the owner of blockbuster wrinkle treatment Botox, is at it again....
...In 2000, US dermatologists performed roughly 790,000 injections of Botox and other toxins, rising to 6.7m last year, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, while the number of facial filler...
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