Botox and Neurotoxin Treatment in Juno Beach, Florida

Welcome back to living local. The time right now is 9 30 and most of us have heard this name by now but Botox, yeah, and did you know its origins, how it works, or the newer options, more contemporary treatments. Well, here to inform us all about it is Doctor Susan Schroeder and she joins us from perfect skin dermatology and we’re talking neurotoxins because Botox is a neurotoxin, right? Right, it is a neurotoxin. It’s derived from botulinum or Botulism. It would be the infection, but it’s only the toxin. It’s the toxin that is produced by the bacteria. So, you’re not actually putting bacteria or you know, infection into your skin. You’re just using the toxin that is actually toxic to the nerve endings, temporarily. Okay, so kind of like how we found penicillin, mouldy bread, you’re not eating the mould, you’re not making yourself sick, you know we’re just using you know piece of it to to cure something else, right? Absolutely, this has been around since 2000. Well, it’s been around since before 2000, but cosmetically, we’ve been having the we had the FDA approval in 2002 for it. It was interesting how so, how it actually spanned from a medical use to cosmetic. There is a husband-and-wife team, Alistair and Jean Carruthers, and they live in Vancouver, Canada and he’s a dermatologist, and she’s an ophthalmologist and I think it was a dinner one night. She came home and she was treating Buck Blepharospasm which is basically a twitching, it’s a voluntary and involuntary twitching of the eye with Botox and a patient had come back and said, can you feel a little bit more around here, because it really helps my wrinkles. She went home and told her dermatologist husband and that is how this transpired. That is so funny. Yeah, all right. But you know what we are showing another picture up here of something that isn’t Botox, so there’s more than just Botox on the market. Sure, right? Yeah no. So, Botox came out in 2002 and then we had Dysport very similar molecule and then we had Xeomin thereafter, and more recently in the last two months, we’ve had juvo. So, there are four different options. It’s sort of like Coke and Pepsi and RC Cola and Right? You know just different, your preference right, exactly okay, so is this is something that we normally think of to help with some wrinkles. But tell us kind of how it works because you don’t want to overdo it. You don’t want that surprise Jack Nicholson look, right? Right, Yeah, you know, so it was first FDA approved for the glabellar complex, which is basically the elevens, right here the frown lines but then we’ve started to expand its uses and we use it to relax the horizontal lines across the forehead, the crow’s feet. Those are the most common areas, the upper face, but we’ve had it for over 20 years, almost 20 years now and with time there is some atrophy that occurs if you keep treating those muscles over and over again and there tends to be when you have this area with few signs of ageing and the rest of the face is still ageing, there’s a disconnect. So many of us. That do use this on a regular basis are thinking about it differently and approaching it differently, and we’re doing less in those traditional areas, and we’re spreading it to other areas of the face to define a jawline to make you less square here, if that’s your preference, to treat lines in the neck to give you a little bit of an upturned lip, to really bring that whole more youthful face into focus. Right, Okay, and it’s, a more natural, a more natural look, and I’ve actually I’ve gotten it here you’ve actually given it to me here because I grind my teeth so much that my jaw muscle almost it almost hurts, so it’s not just right, Just cosmetic, right, Correct, I mean he started it said you know, for eye twitching, so it started with non-cosmetic but I mean I don’t think people realize that it can help with you, do it up here. Can help with headaches migraines, sweating, around here yes, in the armpits you do, yeah, it’s for sweating and then yeah, here, I mean you’ve, you’ve, saved me because, I was getting like ear pain. It was hurting so bad, but the thing about Botox is you don’t have to do too much, no, like you were saying, just a little bit, but there’s things called, you know, micro toxin and bro taxing for guys, exactly, yeah, Right,  so you know, really you use it long enough and you get comfortable with it and it’s more like a paintbrush like if one eye is a little bit bigger than the other I can straighten that out, I can even up the eyebrows it gives you a new shape that way, we can, you know, define the jawline. There are all kinds of great things you can do with it but yeah, micro-Botox is or micro talk. Excuse me is where we really dilute out that that toxin and we give it to you in very fine blob at the surface of the skin and it changes your texture. It makes it more smooth. It makes your pores smaller, so yeah, yeah, and who doesn’t love that because as women in my family age, the pores right here become like craters. It just happens, alright, well, Doctor Schroeder, I want to thank you so much for your time this morning you know you are definitely an artist and you want to trust you know who is going to be using Botox on your face. I think you should definitely give Doctor Schroeder, a call. You can see that address is up there. If you want to give her a call at 719-4217. 132 Or you can also follow perfect skin dermatology on Facebook. Living look we’ll be right back after the break.