MMBotox®, botulinum rejuvenation procedure easily reduces the signs of aging, for younger, and smoother skin. Success and best results are dependant on the skills of Dr Scaccia. He performs cosmetic surgery procedures in his professional medical suites and a very up to date state-of-the-art Examination Room. (Visit Virtual Tour link above)
MMImproving your appearance, boosting your self-esteem in social and business affairs by looking and feeling younger are your goals. Dr Scaccia has the expertise, training and 19 years of experience in the specialty of facial plastic surgery. Popularity of Botox® has increased to the point where candidates have opted for injections at times in casual social gathering, having non-medical personnel administering the botulinum injection. This is not the ideal situation, compromising safety, medical expertise, for non-medical professionals and often an untrained person. It is of paramount importance for patients to choose a physician who is properly trained in botulinum toxin in order to achieve the best possible results. 
MMIn April 2002 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of botulinum toxin type A for the treatment of forehead furrows. Since then it has become highly regarded and the general public’s acceptance of Botox® botulinum rejuvenation, has grown significantly.
MMIdeal candidates are young to middle-aged men and women who want to eliminate lines and wrinkles on their face and neck and do not suffer from overexposure to the sun. Time is always of the essence, and in our fast paced economy taking an extended leave of absence which is usually associated with cosmetic surgical procedures, patients opt for immediate back to work, even though Botox® injections are repetitive. Usually, every three or four months to maintain results. 
MMBotox® treatments are quick, safe and effective in reducing facial lines, crows feet, and wrinkles the most common signs of aging. It is non-invasive, with no recovery time when performed by a qualified physician. Never take your personal safety lightly under any circumstances, and is all the reason why botulinum toxin injections should only be consider in a very professional medical suite.
MM“BOTOX® Party” Spas, shopping malls and walk-in clinics are offering this new "fountain of youth" and is an inappropriate and dangerous setting for performing medical procedures, of any kind.
MMBotox® Botulinum toxin is a purified form of one of the most potent toxins in the world. It’s composition of bacteria, clostridium botulinum, and infection, with this bacteria is the cause of botulinum. When the bacteria free toxin is carefully injected in very low doses, botulinum toxin is a magic that can reduce signs of aging, forehead lines and wrinkles.
MMBotox® botulinum Type A is used to treat frown lines between the eyebrows Glabellar lines, forehead furrows, crows feet lateral angles of the eyes and lines at the corner of the mouth has become known as “bitterness lines.” Soft tissue fillers and botulinum rejuvenation are administered in reducing lines around the lips. Botox® can also be used for treating horizontal lines of the neck area. Two (2) prominent neck bands that become accentuated (turkey globber). Botox® is also helpful in reducing hands and arm pit sweating.
MMBotulinum toxin is injected into the “purse-string” muscle around the mouth, as a result it becomes weaker. Relaxing this muscle and inserting fillers, these lines can be reduced dramatically.
MMInjecting the proper frontalis muscles of the brow, Botox® Botulinum toxin blocks nerve signals transmitted from the brain, which causes paralysis of the frontalis. After effects are the muscle relaxes, creating a smooth surface. Within a week affected wrinkles and creases soften from the disuse of the muscle. Patient’s ability to frown or squint diminishes. Safely and effectively it prevents the progressive worsening.
MMNon-surgically Dr Scaccia can sculpture the face by the selective injections in appropriate diagnosed areas. Botulinum Toxin Type B has been developed to help with wider applications extending to improve the appearance of the neck. Primarily the platsma muscle (long and protruding)
MMBy injecting sufficient BOTOX® into the correct area simultaneously avoids complications. Side effects are usually technique related. Precise and accurate injections are of paramount importance. A precise injection and an appropriate dose can reduce the number of Botox® units necessary and will also reduce adverse reactions. Cosmetic News articles have stated that “many physicians are under dosing some individuals, especially males.”
MMAlthough eyelid ptosis popularity has risen and become widely known, it is relatively uncommon and short lived. It has not become a dilemma for Dr Scaccia’s Botox® injections. Effects usually have a 4 month life span. Any possible dilemmas with injections into the frontalis or lateral orbital areas are of such precautionary importance and is just the reason why not to shop Botox® for price.
MMFully optimizing results utilizing BOTOX® in conjunction with other facial plastic surgery procedures and agents, such as Facelifts, Forehead Lift, Brow lift, Facial Laser Skin Resurfacing and Fillers can be enhanced by BOTOX®.
MMMore and more men are opting for Botox®. Signs of aging being distinguished as a popular belief is passe amongst today’s men. Men are enjoying in greater numbers the full effects of a more handsome a younger appearance and eliminating those wrinkles and glabellar frown lines on their brow and foreheads. Also Lines and wrinkles around their
eyebrows and mouth.
MMBotox® Botulinum rejuvenation is a simple procedure in which Dr Scaccia carefully injects a low dose of botulinum toxin into your facial muscles, causing temporary relaxation of the injected muscles.This procedure can safely and effectively reduce the appearance of facial lines, crows feet and wrinkles -- the most common signs of aging. Botox® Botulinum rejuvenation is the treatment of choice by patients, being non-invasive and has practically no recovery time.
MMRecent increase in facial plastic cosmetic procedures by men has become fashionably trendy, as men realize it is socially acceptable and advantageous for them to enhance and improve their appearance.”
MMBotox® rejuvenation is available for both men and women but the actual procedure differs for each. A brow lift procedure treats the muscles used to pull the eyebrows down, gives a qualified candidate a more “open-eyed” look. A man’s brow shape and movement are traditionally heavier, thicker, and flatter than a woman’s brow. As a result, Botox® injection techniques are more particular to the male brow in order to avoid heightening the brow and not as curvaceous, which is usually prevalent for women. 
MMMen often have larger muscles than their females, result, they require larger doses of Botox® botulinum toxin A. At least twice as high as women do in order to achieve the same visible effect for the longest length of time.
MMNew filler Restylane (Q-Med) pending FDA approval, will present another opportunity for Botox®. A magical combination that will rid the face of that grumpy expression.
MMBotox® plus Restylane used in combination for treating deep-resting frown lines yielded an excellent and prolonged effect. Restylane alone for treating those deep frown lines, results could last up to 18 weeks. Botox® and Restylane together, results could double and then some. The combination is useful in other facial procedures and areas.
MMBotox® can be used to create a mild brow lift. Surgery is needed when brow ptosis is moderate to severe. Relaxation of the brow depressors with Botox could allow for better stability of brow elevation, especially in the early stages (first 3 months) after surgery when binding of the tissues occurs. The brow binds to it’s new position. Botox® injections are administered a week or so in advance of the procedure, injecting into the head and tail of the corrugator and procerus muscles. Weakening the muscles and pulling the brow down, then only the frontalis (elevator muscle) is less competitive to work against.
MMPreoperative Care: Avoid taking any kind of aspirin or other anti-inflammatory medications before treatments, these medications can cause bleeding and one could bruise easily.
MMNewer treatments for eyebrows, frown lines and bitterness lines around the mouth, among others may be on it’s way with botulinum toxin Type B. Continued research of botulinum toxin, it’s benefits and future uses will bring about many other opportunities of procurement.
MMBotox® botulinum toxin type A is just one of a variety of strains for treating aging skin, being used medically worldwide. An assortment of seven strains varies from A through G, each producing related, yet distinct toxins.
MMBotox® botulinum toxin type A was used exclusively in the United States. Botox® botulinum toxin type B is also now available. Similar injections to type A, type B has an entirely different composition with advantages and disadvantages. While different in sizes, they target other inside cells with the same effect, frontalis muscle paralysis.
MMThese variants and strains of botulinum toxin are all the reason why only a qualified Board Certified Facial Plastic Surgeon should be your physician of choice. It also benefits you the patient in the fact that it allows for greater flexibility, enabling the Doctor a greater personal diagnosis and to administer the correct toxin for you and enhancing your end result.
MMA subordinate element, an adjunct to many cosmetic procedures, Botox® further refines the desired result. Botox® are ablative and non-ablative and used in conjunction with facial laser skin resurfacing, forehead lift, brow lift, blepharoplasty (upper and lower eyelid) and facelifts. Utilizing CO2 laser on the complete face without Botox®, the duration of result, lasts 2 1/2 to three years. Botox® maintenance being administer every six months, the result may enjoy a 5 to 10 years of life span, with an adjunct ablative laser treatment, depending on sun exposure.
MMPostoperative injections every six months will greatly extend, prolong and refine the facial laser skin resurfacing surgery. Patient’s habitual facial expressions, concern, stern, unhappy, expectant and serene will eventually refold the new dermal collagen created by the laser treatment, frontalis muscles will then produce a larger roll type appearance to the glabellar frown lines and the crow's feet might start to thicken. Muscles underneath the skin need to be treated. The combined laser surgery and Botox® is mutually advantageous. The conjunction or compatibility of using Botox® with skin resurfacing does well in relaxing and softening the effect of the muscles. This greatly extends the life of laser treatments. Nearly twice the benefit experienced.
MMUpper lid blepharoplasty, modifying height, and maintaining symmetry. Use of Botox® to achieve a minor brow lift and equalize brow height. About 80 percent of middle-aged women have one brow a little lower than the other recommending a symmetrical correction so the brows will be the same height.
MMBotulinum toxin potency is the same with preserved saline reconstitution
MMPlease visit our Photo Gallery link above for before and afters results.Dr Scaccia’s complete library album can be reviewed at your consultation. An E-mail to schedule a consultation here or above. E-mail link is also available on our Home Page. See links below and or visit our entire site including the photo gallery for before and afters, by procedure.
MMThank you and we look forward to seeing you at our offices.