Vanity biz heals the injured

Bonus. Botox minimizes scars from facial wounds. As well as wrinkles. And here we were thinking that it was just a dead-end plastic surgery market. Nuh-uh. It's because wide scars result from muscles pulling the wound apart. If the muscle is dead to the world, problem partially solved. While University at Buffalo's double blind study only looked at lessening facial scars, the head researcher David Sherris is confident that it will work on other body parts. The FDA needs to approve this new use of the anti-wrinkle botulinum toxin. But because all of Hollywood and beyond has undergone the treatment safely doctors can go ahead and inject away for off-label use.

Now botox can join the ranks of teflon, the www, and GPS as a technology that left its birth industry for the better.

Via Science Blog

Comments

[Jaimie]

Botox can also be injected to improve vocal fold functioning in people who have conditions like "Spasmodic Dysphonia", where their vocal folds spasm and cause respiratory distress as well as speech difficulties. Plus their vocal folds are all attractive and non-wrinkly. :)

[Anne]

That is so fantastic. Who knew.

[Wendy]

Botox has also been used for many years to relieve chronic pain relating to muscle spasticity in other parts of the body, too!

[MT]

What's the rate of complications these days resulting from Botox injections by licensed pros?