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Thu Aug 31, 2006 4:34 pm |
This little article was in a email newsletter I got today from vitacost.com. Interesting to say the least...
Botox Reduces Facial Scarring
It's the first such drug to do so, researchers say
(HealthDay News) -- Botox injections can help facial wounds heal with less scarring, a small study finds.
"This is the first medication found to minimize scarring," senior author Dr. David Sherris, professor and chair of the department of otolaryngology at the University at Buffalo, said in a prepared statement.
His team published the study in the August issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. The study included 31 patients who suffered wounds to the forehead or had surgery to remove skin cancers from the forehead, an area that's particularly susceptible to scarring. The patients received either an injection of Botox or saline within 24 hours after wound closure.
Photographs were taken at the time the patients received the injections and again six months later. The photographs were reviewed by two facial plastic surgeons who weren't involved in the study. They rated the patients' wound healing on a scale of zero to 10, with 10 representing the best result. The two surgeons' scores were averaged to reach a final score for each patient.
The median scores for wounds injected with Botox were 8.9, compared to 7.1 for wounds injected with saline. "The result is of substantial interest in the field of scar treatment. When a wound occurs, especially on the face, people are always worried about the scar. We can now try to improve scars with these injections," Sherris said.
The study was funded by a clinical research grant from the Mayo Clinic.
As someone who suffers from keloid scarring, I have been terrified of facial injury my whole life (hence that ongoing desire to not need suncancers surgeries..). I will be keeping watch on this! |
_________________ SKIN: combination, reactive to climate changes and extremely fair. "Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself." --Roseanne |
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Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:28 pm |
Jumping up & down with joy today because my biggest beauty issue has been fixed!
Thank you, tiger_tim!!!
Last month, I had an awful abcess erupt on my face as a result of an old injury acting up. It was lanced and drained, which hurt like crazy, and left me with an icepick scar and a big lump of a scar UNDER the skin!
Horrible. It looked like a cat hiding under the blankets or something.
I diligently worked the area with supercop serum, onion extract, rosehip oil, everything I could think of. No results, probably because much of the scarring was under the skin.
Went for the routine forehead botox today and persuaded my dermatologist to inject some into the scarbump. By the time I got home, it was noticeably flatter! |
_________________ Blond, Swedish/Cherokee, normal/dry skin, a sucker for products, gizmos, and treatments that are "age-defying." Just hit the big 4-0 |
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Mon Feb 19, 2007 8:11 pm |
heathercolorado wrote: |
Jumping up & down with joy today because my biggest beauty issue has been fixed!
Thank you, tiger_tim!!!
Last month, I had an awful abcess erupt on my face as a result of an old injury acting up. It was lanced and drained, which hurt like crazy, and left me with an icepick scar and a big lump of a scar UNDER the skin!
Horrible. It looked like a cat hiding under the blankets or something.
I diligently worked the area with supercop serum, onion extract, rosehip oil, everything I could think of. No results, probably because much of the scarring was under the skin.
Went for the routine forehead botox today and persuaded my dermatologist to inject some into the scarbump. By the time I got home, it was noticeably flatter! |
did he charge you for this or was it a freebie?? |
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Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:34 am |
She charges per unit of botox, so it was just slightly extra. |
_________________ Blond, Swedish/Cherokee, normal/dry skin, a sucker for products, gizmos, and treatments that are "age-defying." Just hit the big 4-0 |
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Tue Feb 20, 2007 7:25 am |
WOW!! you will have to keep us updated as to just how flat it gets and how long it stays that way! |
_________________ SKIN: combination, reactive to climate changes and extremely fair. "Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself." --Roseanne |
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