Do your facial wrinkles deepen when your facial muscles contract? Have you recently become aware of new facial lines? If you responded affirmatively to one or both of the aforementioned questions, you’re not alone. People commonly seek anti-aging treatment to reverse the visible effects of the skin aging process. At Southeastern Institute of Restorative Medicine in Dothan, AL, we offer Dysport to help our clients improve their skin health, countenance, and self-confidence. Today, we’re looking at how long the treatment results last and much more.
Dysport is an injectable muscle relaxant that involves the administration of a neurotoxic protein called ABO. However, it is known in the medical community as Bobotulinumtoxin A. When injected into areas of concern, excessive muscle contractions are prevented. This results in the treatment of both cosmetic and medical concerns caused by hyperactive muscles.
How Long Does a Dysport Injection Last?
It can be argued that the two most advantageous aspects of Dysport injections are how quickly the initial results become apparent and the durability of the final results.
Durable Results
Depending on the muscles treated with this injectable muscle relaxant, you can expect your final results to last anywhere from three to four months. This contrasts significantly with other injectable muscle relaxants that only provide final results that last between two and three months.
In other words, with ABO injections, you may only need three or four annual sessions to maintain your ideal results. With other injectable muscle relaxants, you would need between four and six annual treatment sessions to maintain your ideal treatment results.
Fast Initial Results
This injectable muscle relaxant begins to work as soon as it is administered. Therefore, your skin will feel smoother as soon as your treatment is complete. If you look at your reflection in your car mirror in our parking lot, you may even be able to see that your wrinkles are more relaxed than usual.
Fast Final Results
Another incredible benefit of this injectable muscle relaxant is you can expect to see the final results in just 96 hours. This is a significantly shorter expected timeframe than other injectable muscle relaxants that don’t provide final results for 10 to 14 days.
To put that into perspective, the full results of ABO last up to twice as long as the results of similar treatments. Additionally, you can confidently expect you will see your ideal ABO results 2.5 to 3.5 times faster than the ideal results of other neurotoxins.
Where Can This Injectable Be Administered?
Another great thing about this injectable is its versatility. As noted above, it can treat both cosmetic and medical concerns caused by excessively dynamic muscles. It was originally approved by the FDA to erase glabellar lines (frown lines) safely and effectively. However, it can be administered into other areas that could benefit from relaxed muscles.
For example, it is often used to correct cosmetic concerns around the eyes. Crow’s feet are long, deep, hard-to-treat lines that form around the outer corners of the eyes. These lines deep further when you squint or smile. Other possible injection locations for this injectable muscle relaxant include the mouth around the upper lip, the neck, the nasolabial folds between your nose and mouth, and the forehead folds above the eyebrows.
How Does This Treatment Work?
As mentioned above, this treatment works by preventing some of the communication to excessively dynamic muscles. Specifically, the neurotoxin blocks some of the electrical signals sent from your brain to the neurons in the nerve endings of the treated muscle.
This is accomplished by the neurotoxin affixing itself to some of the nerve endings in the treatment area. Therefore, some of the messages sent to your brain are physically blocked by the neurotoxic protein.
What Can ABO Be Used To Treat?
We’ve already discussed briefly that this injectable can be administered into a great number of muscle groups. Now, we would like to take the time to give a general overview of the types of concerns this injectable can treat.
The Effects of the Aging Process on the Skin
Usually, ABO is used as a cosmetic treatment. It erases moderate-to-severe wrinkles and folds caused by the natural aging process of the skin. It can also erase dynamic lines that occur due to repetitious emotive displays of emotion, like smiling or laughing.
Other ABO applications include the treatment of nasolabial folds that are triggered by repetitious nose scrunching. Furthermore, it can address other signs of aging, such as sagging neck skin and jowls dragging the corners of the mouth down.
Spastic Limbs
Both children and adults can be affected by limb spasticity. This condition develops when communicative nerve cell damage occurs. The message sent from your brain gets scrambled on its way to the muscles in the affected limbs. The result of this miscommunication is the muscles in the affected limbs excessively contract and tighten.
Some of the most common symptoms of spastic limbs are muscle tightness, stiffness, and soreness. Spastic limbs can be debilitating, making it difficult and painful to complete the most mundane of tasks.
Conditions That Cause Spastic Limbs
A great number of medical conditions can trigger muscle spasticity. Most commonly, major strokes and TIAs result in spastic limbs. However, multiple sclerosis (MS) and cerebral palsy also often result in limb spasticity. When ABO is injected into spastic muscles, muscle spasticity is halted temporarily. The FDA approved the injection of ABO into spastic lower limbs in children who are at least two and spastic lower and upper limbs in adults.
Cervical Dystonia
ABO can also relieve the symptoms of several neurological conditions that trigger uncontrollable muscle spasms. Among these neurological conditions is cervical dystonia. Also known as spasmodic torticollis, cervical dystonia causes the muscles in the neck to contract and spasm involuntarily.
The head can twist painfully, tilt back and forth uncontrollably, or turn to your left or right side involuntarily as a result of these unwanted muscle contractions. These sudden spasms can happen at any time. They are often accompanied by severe pain or extreme discomfort. Just one ABO injection session into the muscles in the back of your neck can prevent months of sudden pain caused by cervical dystonia.
What Are Some Other Benefits You Can Expect After ABO Injections?
There are a number of benefits associated with ABO injections besides how soon you can see your results and how long they last. For instance, our clients like this treatment because it is non-invasive, versatile, safe, and convenient. Additionally, it is highly effective, increases self-confidence, and improves the quality of life of clients with painful, life-disrupting medical conditions.
This Treatment Is Safe
In the past, people often worried about unwanted side effects from neurotoxic protein injections. Luckily, you don’t have to worry about your treated muscles freezing after ABO injections. People often receive an ABO dose of only 0.05 ml. This dose is small enough that neither your muscles nor your skin will be affected negatively, but your muscles will relax enough that they, and your skin, will smooth.
This Treatment Is Safe
In the past, people often worried about unwanted side effects from neurotoxic protein injections. Luckily, you don’t have to worry about your treated muscles freezing after ABO injections. People often receive an ABO dose of only 0.05 ml. This dose is small enough that neither your muscles nor your skin will be affected negatively, but your muscles will relax enough that they, and your skin, will smooth.
This Treatment Isn’t Invasive
Another incredible advantage of ABO injections is they improve the appearance and health of your skin without putting you through an invasive procedure. The needle used to administer the ABO is so fine the treatment isn’t considered invasive at all.
During your treatment session, the neurotoxic protein is injected into the trouble region so it reaches the excessively dynamic muscles quickly. Additionally, since this isn’t an invasive anti-aging solution, there is little-to-no downtime and no recovery period necessary after the treatment is complete.
This Treatment Is Very Convenient
The convenience of this injectable muscle relaxant is its convenience. Invasive procedures often require you to stay overnight in a hospital for observation. Even minimally invasive procedures can require several hours of observation to ensure no nasty side effects occurred during the operation. With this injectable, you don’t even have to go to a hospital. Rather, we perform the entire treatment in our sterile, comfortable office.
Additionally, your treatment session should only take between 10 and 20 minutes depending on how many doses you need to achieve your desired results and the size of the area being treated. The only way your session would take 30 minutes or longer is if you were targeting one or more large areas for treatment and you needed several doses per treatment area.
This Treatment Requires Very Little Downtime
Remember, there is almost no downtime once your session is complete. This means you don’t have to go straight home and recover for days or weeks after your session is over. Rather, you are free to return to work or any social obligations you have that don’t involve vigorous exercise. There are also a few other post-treatment restrictions, but they won’t interfere with your daily routine significantly.
This Treatment Is Incredibly Effective
Another incredible advantage of this injectable muscle relaxant is how effective the treatment is. Similar injectable muscle relaxants can freeze your muscles and prevent you from emoting naturally because the dose used is so high and the type of A botulinum toxin is different. With ABO injections, you can feel confident your results will look natural after every treatment session because of the unique protein used to facilitate the results and the small dose used.
Additionally, unlike alternative injectable muscle relaxants, you can feel confident that you will see your ideal results after no more than 96 hours. To reiterate, this is 2.5 to 3.5 times faster than you could expect the final results of similar treatments. Finally, we’d like to emphasize you will only need one treatment session to achieve your ideal results.
Relax Your Muscles Today
Dysport is an injectable muscle relaxant that can erase moderate-to-severe dynamic wrinkles and folds in no more than four days. You can confidently expect these final results to remain for three to four months, 2.5 to 3.5 times longer than the results of other injectable muscle relaxants that take 10 to 14 days to become apparent.
To find out if ABO is right for you, contact us today at Southeastern Institute of Restorative Medicine in Dothan, AL to schedule your initial consultation.