Botox® has become a renowned treatment for fine lines and wrinkles, but the details of how it works are less commonly known. Botox® is composed of a protein that, when injected into the muscles beneath the skin, helps them to relax.

This alleviates moderate to severe wrinkles and creases like those between the eyebrows, horizontal forehead lines, and crow’s feet. This is far less invasive and less expensive than the more extreme method of a face lift, and better yet, results are immediate.

In addition to treating wrinkles, Botox® in San Diego and in cities worldwide is also an effective treatment for excessive underarm sweating, also known as hyperhidrosis. A technique using Botox® reduces the release of excessive sweat from the underarm glands.

It accomplishes this by blocking the release of a chemical that signals perspiration. Sweat glands that do not receive this chemical signal are thankfully incapable of sweating severely. Botox treatment for hyperhidrosis can last six months or more. San Diego Botox® treatment for hyperhidrosis may be particularly popular, given the year-round warm climate.

Botox is effective as a treatment for lines and facial wrinkles from frown lines between the eyebrows to smoker’s lines around the mouth, as well as excessive underarm sweating. For a consultation about your needs related to any of these purposes, contact the San Diego Botox® experts at Avalon Laser. The physicians and nurses at the Avalon Laser medical spa are specially trained and experienced in all the procedures they perform, so you can rest assured that you are receiving the finest