MS and muscle spasms
- Botulinum toxin is used to decrease spasticity related to multiple sclerosis and other neurological conditions.
- Botox injections may help stop muscles contracting or twitching when the person doesn't want them to.
Excessive sweating
- Botulinum toxin is a treatment option for excessive sweating or hyperhidrosis.
- It works by blocking signals the brain sends to sweat glands.
- Botox injections are given in affected areas, such as the armpits, hands, feet or face. The procedure can last up to eight months.
Essential tremor
- Essential tremor is a nerve disorder causing uncontrollable shaking or tremors affecting different parts of the body. Botox injections have been found to be effective for vocal and head tremors.
Bell's palsy
- Bell's palsy causes the drooping of the side of a person's face because of nerve problems. The effect usually goes after some months.
- However, Botox injections may be used in long-term Bell's palsy to relax muscles that have become tight or to help reduce unwanted muscle movements or twitching.
Pinnaplasty
- The most common procedure is for your surgeon to make a cut on the back of each ear to remove a small area of skin close to the groove between your ear and the side of your head to expose the cartilage. Your surgeon will then reshape the cartilage to allow your ears to lie closer to the side of your head.
- Other techniques may involve removing a small amount of cartilage or reshaping the cartilage by lightly cutting into it. Stitches may be used to help maintain the new shape.
- Alternatively, stitches can be used to reshape the cartilage without cutting into it. This is most often used in children with softer cartilage.
- Once your operation is finished, your wound will be stitched up and a dressing applied. You may need to wear a bandage around your head to cover both ears. This will protect your ears and hold them in their new position while they heal.
Lip Voltage - The Luxury Beauty Company
- Celebrity-favourite, DreamWeave & Co, has announced its most exciting and innovative product to date – Lip Voltage.
- In a world-first, ladies can control how much plump they want in their pout by literally ‘mixing up’ the voltage of this duo product treatment plumper. Wearers simply add a VBE*-infused lip plumper to the peptide treatment, mixing the formula together to achieve their desired ‘voltage’.
- The customisable lip treatment can provide low, medium and even high voltage, which turbo boosts the plumping effect in just a few drops! With continual use over time, the treatment builds collagen to create softer, fuller lips.
- This is one beauty must-have that should be at the top of every girl’s wish-list this year.The resulting effect increases the blood flow, mimicking the effects of chilli and pepper, without irritating the skin.
Why does it tingle?
To circulate the blood flow into the lips and open the pores for quicker pentration.
Katie Piper -Daily Mail: Acid attack victim: I heard a horrible screaming sound... it was coming from me (by Katie Piper, 30 January 2011)
- I had suffered third degree burns, as well as losing most of my nose, my eyelids, and half my left ear.The acid had also damaged my eyes, my mouth and my tongue. It had splashed on to my arms, hands and legs, and burned right through my neck and cleavage.
- Nine days after the attack, my surgeon came into my room and explained I would soon be having a major operation. Mr Jawad seemed like an angel to me and I knew he would do his very best. Two men had destroyed my face and now this one was going to try to rebuild it.
Daily Mail: Brave acid attack victim Katie Piper says she would never judge someone who has had cosmetic surgery
- Her eyelashes, due to the skin grafts, tend to grow inwards, pricking her eyes, so she has them pulled out. ‘But when you lose your entire face, losing your eyebrows and lashes is nothing.’
- Even though she has had more than 200 procedures, more are planned: she will have nasal reconstruction to help with breathing, and as her eyelids contract, they will turn inside out, and have to be corrected.
- Her oesophagus narrows as the scar tissue hardens, so she keeps having to have it widened. I tell her the pain I felt after my face-lift seems like nothing now. ‘Yeah, people think it’s frivolous to have something done, but it’s not something most women enter into lightly. You have to be desperate.’
