Face Lift San Francisco - Guarantee Success With The Correct Dose Of Botox

If treating your neck and facial wrinkles with botox injections is something you are considering, you must understand how important the correct dosage is to the success of your treatment. Sure, everyone nowadays has heard of the process of using botulinum toxin to treat wrinkles but many still do not have an understanding how the process actually works. So if you think botox might be right for you, you must understand how botulinum toxin in reconstituted and how that affect the success of your treatment.

Reconstitution Of Botulinum Toxin
Allergen (the vendor of botulinum toxin) ships botox as 100 unit vials of dry substance to plastic surgeons all around. Saline is then added to the dry botox to reconstitute it, thereby allowing it to be used in practice and injected into a human body. How much saline is used correlates to the actual strength of the botox injection you receive. So in other words, the more saline you plastic surgeon adds to the bottle, the weaker the resulting botox injection will be.

The American Society of Plastic Surgery set guidelines for reconstitution to ensure the efficacy of the resulting product.

All Botox Treatments Are Not Equal
Since it is your physician who reconstitutes the botox prior to injecting it, it is clear that all botox injections will not be equal. As mentioned before, the strength of botox injections vary according to the volume of saline used for reconstitution. As such, always try to find out how much botox you will actually receive. A full syringe does not equate to a large dosage: this may simply indicate that you are receiving a large volume of saline! Do not be confused if your physician injects a large amount: note the units of botox different from the volume of saline.

Advertisements for low cost botox injections are likely to be for clinics that dilute their botox vials with far more saline than they should. The ends result of such a treatment, however, will be unsatisfactory since you will be receiving far less botulinum than you believed.

Recommended Dosages
Recommended botox dosages as outlined by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons are:

• Forehead Lines - 15-20 Units
• Crow's Feet - 8-16 Units per Side
• Glabellar Area - 20-30 Units
• Dimpled Chin - 2-6 Units
• Perioral Area - 4-10 Units Total

Important Questions For Your Cosmetic Surgeon
When considering botox, you should ask your cosmetic surgeon what reconstitution ratio he/she uses and how much of the actual botox you will be receiving in your injection. When you compare this amount to the amounts listed above you will be able to ensure the best possible outcome for your procedure.

You need to be well-informed and aware of what will be used for your treatment and in what dosages despite your physician’s experience or qualifications. This will protect your interests in ensuring you attain the best results that can be expected from your procedure.