Botox Manifesto
If someone looks unnatural after Botox, the injector is likely to blame. The goal with neuromodulators is to relax muscles restoring a youthful position with minimal wrinkling, but not frozen.
People become obsessed with having no motion, but even young people will crease their skin with certain facial expressions.
Dr. Bass shares how he carefully customizes Botox injections for each individual patient to minimize lines and maximize brow elevation while preserving function and expression.
He reveals how Botox (along with Dysport, Xeomin, Jeuveau and Daxxify) is best used to make the world’s most popular rejuvenation treatment safe, precise, and predictable.
Hear his invaluable advice for how to choose an injector who won’t leave you looking frozen, how to know which neuromodulator brand is best for your needs, and when peels, energy treatments or fillers might be a better choice.
Learn more about Botox at Bass Plastic Surgery
About Dr. Lawrence Bass
Innovator. Industry veteran. In-demand Park Avenue board certified plastic surgeon, Dr. Lawrence Bass is a true master of his craft, not only in the OR but as an industry pioneer in the development and evaluation of new aesthetic technologies. With locations in both Manhattan (on Park Avenue between 62nd and 63rd Streets) and in Great Neck, Long Island, Dr. Bass has earned his reputation as the plastic surgeon for the most discerning patients in NYC and beyond.
To learn more, visit the Bass Plastic Surgery website or follow the team on Instagram @drbassnyc
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Welcome to Park Avenue
Plastic Surgery Class,
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the podcast where we explore controversies
and breaking issues in plastic
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surgery. I'm your co-host, Doreen Wu,
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a clinical assistant at Bass
Plastic Surgery in New York City.
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I'm excited to be here with Dr. Lawrence
Bass, Park Avenue plastic surgeon,
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educator and technology innovator.
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The title of today's episode
is the Botox Manifesto.
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You've intrigued me again. What do
you mean by this title, Dr. Bass?
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A manifesto is defined as
a written summary of the
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views of its issuer.
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This will be a verbal rather
than a written manifesto.
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What stimulated you to prepare
this summary or manifesto?
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I do a lot of all kinds of
facial rejuvenation treatments.
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The nonsurgical injectable
treatments like Botox and fillers are
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recurrent treatments, so these take
place multiple times every day in my
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office. Botox is hands down
the most popular treatment and
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has an extremely high level of
satisfaction compared to any
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other aesthetic treatment out
there. Still doing these treatments.
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There are some patterns
of good use and bad use,
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real understanding and insight
by patients and by providers
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and other examples where there's
kind of a lack of understanding that
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emerges patterns that are
repeated over and over.
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So I have the luxury on this podcast
of stating my opinion in the matter,
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not that my opinion is
necessarily the truth,
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but their beliefs that I have
about how Botox is best used,
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that I personally wish
more people understood.
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Let's get started. Go ahead
and lay out your thoughts.
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First, I said Botox,
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but I'm really speaking
about all neuromodulators.
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Neuromodulator is the term I
prefer to all the others to
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name this class of medications.
Currently in the United States,
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they include Botox, Dysport, Xeomin,
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Jeuveau, and most recently Daxxify.
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These are extraordinary medications,
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not just for the extremely pleasing
effects they have on our appearance,
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but because of the extraordinary
quality control in producing exactly
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the same potency with different
lots of medication despite the
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very tiny amounts of material
contained in each vial.
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That's a triumph of quality
control and manufacturing by the
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pharmaceutical companies that
produce these medications.
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And yes, we've talked about
these attributes before,
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but it's always good to review to
have it as part of this discussion.
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Second, Botox is not good or bad.
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There's good injectors and bad injectors,
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and there's a really broad
range of background training
and experience in those
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individuals injecting Botox today.
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The mindset of the injectors
and the patients also varies,
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and we're coming to a discussion
of that particular issue.
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But basically, if someone
looks bad after Botox,
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unnatural or obvious,
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the injector is likely to
blame and not the medication.
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When a patient comes in my
office and they say, well,
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I don't want Botox because I got it
once and I didn't like the effect,
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or I got this filler and
I didn't like the effect,
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my first question is
always who injected you?
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Because if it was someone who I know
is experienced and a talented injector,
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then suspicious why did
they have a problem with the
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material?
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But sometimes it's not an experienced
injector and we want to at
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least try again and see if it'll work out.
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There is an occasional patient who
reacts unpredictably to the medication,
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but this is by far the
exception and not the rule.
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And usually a good injector
can work out a pattern of
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injection locations and
dosing that will provide good
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control with a natural look.
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This is also the advantage of working
with a physician who knows you well and
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has been treating you over time.
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Each treatment adds a little bit
of learning about your individual
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dynamics to give you the best
custom effect rather than a
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cut read cookie cutter treatment.
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But what about dosing? Isn't that what
gives great control and durability?
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It is important to use an adequate
dose. That is an important issue.
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Low dose frequent treatments
are not recommended.
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They may seem a little less
expensive each go round,
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but overall it's really less efficient
with your time and your money,
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it's more tissue trauma and
the control tends to be less.
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And also there's a biological concern
about the possibility of becoming
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sensitized to the medicine. This is rare,
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but it certainly increases if you
do many low dose treatments every
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month or two.
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So you're saying, if I get enough
medicine, I'll be completely frozen.
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So again, this is one of my
big manifesto points. No,
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we don't want you to be frozen.
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The goal is to smooth
wrinkles. Position the brow,
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not to eliminate the ability
to move muscles completely,
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because when we're youthful, we're smooth.
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Our brow is in a good
position, but we can make,
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so creating a mask like
appearance is not the endpoint.
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The endpoint is not no
muscle activity whatsoever,
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and so many people have
become preoccupied with this.
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The medicine works by blocking release
of acetylcholine vesicles that spread
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across the synapse to the
muscles causing them to fire.
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So this effect is very specific to where
the medication is placed and how much
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is used. So to eliminate wrinkles
to the greatest extent possible.
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At rest,
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we're just trying to reduce the
resting tension in the muscle,
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reduce the force with which the
muscle contracts when we make an
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expression and we'll
succeed in improving dynamic
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wrinkles, the ones that are
the result of muscle motion,
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but it's not going to help us
very much for fixed wrinkles that
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are ironed into the fabric of
the skin from years of muscle
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tension and sun damage.
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Fixed wrinkles require peels,
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energy treatments or sometimes
some of the newer superficial
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fillers. So again, to go back,
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we want to minimize
wrinkles during animation,
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minimizing wrinkles with
average expressions.
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If we look at young
people even they make some
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wrinkles when they make
an extreme expression.
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So it's not that we absolutely
can't have any wrinkles,
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even when we make the biggest smile or
the most forceful expression we can come
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up with. And as I said,
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I see so many people who become
preoccupied or one could even say
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obsessed with having no motion,
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and that's really not a natural look,
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and it's not a goal of what
we're trying to do with Botox.
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That all makes sense to me. What else?
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There are certain areas
we can boost in a touch up
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if there's still muscle activity.
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So even though I said we
don't need to be frozen,
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there are some areas like
the frown or muscles or
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eyebrow depressor muscles
that pull the brow down.
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There's no functional or adverse
aesthetic consequence for
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those muscles being totally asleep.
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So if there's still a line
where there's still too much
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motion, we can increase the dose by
adding a little medicine and a touch-up.
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That's not true of every area
we treat with Botox. However,
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there are other areas that are
by definition a balancing act,
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so fully awake,
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they'd show wrinkles and fully asleep,
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we would have an aesthetic
or a functional problem.
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So we have to compromise
when we treat those areas.
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And these are areas that
get treated every day,
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including areas that are part of
the primary FDA approval for these
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medications.
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And we have to compromise
to minimize the lines,
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maximize brow elevation while
preserving function and an
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awake look. So in treating those areas,
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a hundred percent of the
treatments are compromised. Dosing.
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There's no absolute of
going all the way to a
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sleep because that's
going to be a problem.
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All the treatments around
the mouth are like that.
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We have to take the effect we can get
without interfering with the ability to
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speak, eat, drink,
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seal our lips because we'll look
unnatural and we'll start to
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have really impactful
functional problems if we
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overdose those areas.
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This is what requires so much skill
to do these injections well and
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why an experienced injector with a
detailed knowledge of facial anatomy is
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really important.
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Where the muscles are
on you as an individual,
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to locate exactly where to
inject and looking and assessing
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exactly how your muscular dynamics work
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is really important.
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Something that whomever does the
treatment really needs to be involved
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with and have a lot of
experience and insight.
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Remember Botox injections
are medical care,
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medical knowledge helps make
the treatment safe, precise,
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and predictable.
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Can you give us some examples of
different areas that can be treated with
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neuromodulators?
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So there are many, many areas that
we treat for aesthetic reasons,
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and some of these are
for wrinkle reduction.
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Some of these are to
reduce contour depression.
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Some of these are to
take contour fullness and
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shrink it to an extent.
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And some of these uses
are FDA approved uses.
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Some are off-label uses, but widely
practiced on a routine basis.
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So forehead areas,
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the frown or 11 lines,
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transverse lines across the top
of the nose are commonly treated.
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Forehead lines across
the top of the forehead,
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bunny lines or little wrinkle
lines at the side of the nose,
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crow's feet that are dynamic because
there's also fixed wrinkles there.
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We sometimes reduce lipstick bleed
lines a little bit with Botox, again,
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has to be carefully done and always
a compromise treatment and doesn't
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help us too much with fixed lines,
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but very good for moderating
but not eliminating
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dynamic lines.
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The depressor angularis
muscle is injected,
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which will soften the marionette line area
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and cobblestone or pulling
in and dimpling of the
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skin in the chin is often treated as well.
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The masseter muscle is a
strong muscle on the side
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of the jaw in the back, and for
people with very wide faces,
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they can get some contour slimming and
some people also treat there if they have
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TMJ problems.
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Neck banding is another area.
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Treating the platysmal bands in the
center of the neck under the chin can be
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very helpful in people where
it's the muscle tension
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and not the skin laxity
that's creating visibility
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to that area.
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So those are some examples
and not a definitive list,
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but just some of the common
areas that are routinely treated.
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We've talked about dosing. What
about which neuromodulator to select?
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I mentioned FDA approvals before.
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There are a few differences in what
approvals each of the neuromodulators
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has, but there's a lot of off-label use.
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All of the neuromodulators currently in
the United States are botulinum toxin
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A materials,
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so they all to a degree
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work in the same fashion. They
certainly all target the same receptor.
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My advice in this regard is basically
if you're happy with what you are
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getting with your existing neuromodulator,
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stick with that medication
and stick with that injector.
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If you're not happy and
you were hoping for more,
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you can experiment and try with
a different neuromodulator.
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Always best to use ones your injectors
familiar and experienced with,
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but experienced injectors usually
work with most or all of them.
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And if you like the new medication,
it's doing a better job for you,
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that's great. You have a
new neuromodulator. If not,
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you can always switch back
at the next treatment.
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Since it's a recurrent treatment,
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you're not stuck with your new choice,
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but don't switch right before a
big event because if the medication
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behaves a little differently in an
unpredictable way you don't like,
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you have to wait that out.
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And so experimenting is not a great
idea two weeks before a wedding,
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if you're still not getting what
you want out of your neuromodulator,
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talk to your doctor about refining
the dosing and locations of the
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injections.
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An experienced provider will tell
you whether you're asking for
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something realistic or if you're
stuck in one of those compromised
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circumstances
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where you can get improvement
but not total improvement.
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Or if you're asking the neuromodulator
to do something for which it's not
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really a good solution.
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So use your experienced
physician plastic surgeon
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dermatologist to advise
you about what you can
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reasonably expect out of the
neuromodulator and how you might be able
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to optimize the treatment.
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The other thing is a lot of people will
look at study data about the effect of a
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given medication, about
durability of a filler,
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and the study data is objective.
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It's extremely useful to FDA in deciding
whether something should be on the
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market and to physicians in
understanding how products work.
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But the studies are done in
a very controlled manner with
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a very monolithic way of doing the
treatment and summarizing that effect in a
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large number of people,
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it rarely resembles the results
we obtain in actual clinical
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practice where the technique is varied
based on the needs of the patient and the
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judgment of the physician.
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Over the course of this whole episode,
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you've essentially laid out
your manifesto. Now, Dr. Bass,
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can you take a shot at summarizing
for our listeners please?
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Absolutely.
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So bad injectors not bad Botox,
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you should be able to look
perfectly natural with a well
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performed Botox treatment.
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Your goal is to be smooth but not frozen.
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An experienced injector
who knows you well,
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and will take the time to
customize your treatment
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and will learn from each experience.
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Treating you is a very important
component in getting the
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most out of doing these Botox treatments.
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It's good to dose adequately for the
best control and the best interval
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between treatments rather than
doing low dose treatments.
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And remember to be realistic
about the trade-offs.
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We all wish there was the free lunch,
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but we have this trade-off between how
much brow elevation, how much smoothing.
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Sometimes you can shade it in one
direction or the other, take your choice,
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but there's no way to have it all,
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so recognize there's
some compromise there.
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If the grass looks greener with
another neuromodulator, try it.
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There's not a lot of downside.
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You can stick with the old one
or the new one next time around,
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depending on how you
felt about the results.
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Thank you, Dr. Bass for sharing
opinions and viewpoints on Botox.
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You certainly converted me to
a believer in your manifesto.
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