Dysport… The New Botox Competitor!

Dysport received FDA approval this past April. Botox was the only treatment available, previous to Dysport’s approval, that gave the immediate, simple and affordable wrinkle and frown line treatments that have become so everyday that common people can afford it. No longer was expensive plastic surgery necessary, that only the movie stars and wealthy heiresses could afford, with the discovery of Botox. Now, Dysport has become formidable competition for Botox and there are similarities, yet differences between the two treatment options.

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Dysport and Botox come from the same active ingredient: botlulinum toxin A. Both cause muscles to stop contracting. This can cause facial muscles to stop causing wrinkles and frown lines. Both can be used to treat both wrinkles and excessive underarm sweating. And both Botox and Dysport must be injected directly into the facial muscles.

It seems then at first glance that Botox and Dysport are the same. However, there are some exciting differences. And these differences are in a variety of different areas from price, to results, to side effects.

Many doctors are discovering what many patients are about to find out-Dysport is considerably cheaper than Botox. Doctors that are offering Dysport treatments have passed the savings on to the patients, since they have found it gives them a clear advantage over the doctors that don’t offer a Botox alternative.

A single injection of Dysport affects a wider muscle area of the face or underarm than Botox injections do. The Dysport treatments require fewer injections than similar doses of Botox, so that savings is even more significant. Larger areas such as the forehead and underarm sometimes require more injections with Botox, but that is not the case with Dysport. In addition, the treatments have been described as nearly painless with Dysport when compared to similar Botox treatments. The major downside of spreading to larger areas is that you could experience contraction problems with muscles that were not intended to be affected, in the case of Dysport.

Fewer allergic reactions have been reported with Dysport because fewer antibodies react to the toxins, when compared to equal treatments of Botox. This benefit coupled with the reduced price, could give Dysport a clear advantage over Botox treatments. The allergic reactions were something that had to be tolerated with the more expensive Botox treatments.

The result of this very similar but crucially different treatment option may mean that Botox itself becomes much more affordable. Now that it now longer has a monopoly it may be that the only way Botox can compete is to become much more affordable. In the very near future patients might be able to call different clinics to get varying estimates on treatment.

In the end the addition of another treatment option seems to be good news to everyone except maybe shareholders in the company that markets Botox. For everyone else, doctors and patients alike, the arrival of the newcomer means added options and greater monetary savings.

Stop Evaporation… Stay Moisturized!

Though I mainly talk about wrinkles and how to reduce or eliminate them, skin care topics are always good to talk about. Let’s take Dry Skin for example.

The outer layer of skin is called the “Stratum Corneum”. This outer layer mainly consists of dead skin cells and is normally replaced by newer healthy skin cells. The outer layer has oils or lipids that protect your skin from losing moisture. The Stratum Corneum contains keratin, a protein that helps keep the skin hydrated by preventing water evaporation.

There are a few things you can do to reduce the lose of this layer and keep your skin moist. Instead of taking a very hot bath or shower, use warm water. If you are taking a bath in a tub add moisturizing oils. If you prefer a shower, pat yourself dry and apply a moisturizer to help the outer layer. The moisturizers will help retain water for the skin and protect it from the environment. This in turn will help to reduce water evaporation from the skin helping to keep it moist and supple.

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Helping yourself now can actually help you in the future. Taking care of your skin can help to eliminate future wrinkles as you get older.

Staying out of direct sunlight, using good UV protection if you go out in the sun and keeping your skin moisturized, are a few small things you can do to reduce your chances of dry skin and possibly wrinkles. Visit Skin Care Solution for more information.

Dysport… The Way to a Smoother Face!

Dysport… The Way to a Smoother Face!
by Joyce Pendelthumb

With the many available solutions to eliminating facial lines or wrinkles, one classic problem with the selection is budget constraints. While celebrities can afford routine Botox injections and occasional surgical alterations to cover up the signs of aging, the anti-wrinkle options for ordinary people is usually limited. In April of last year, a new and more affordable anti-wrinkle solution was introduced. While it carries the same ingredients found in Botox, a single Dysport injection covers wider areas. This means lesser number of injections and lesser cost in successfully eliminating wrinkles.

Botox has long become the most popular and accessible solution to eliminating facial lines and signs of aging. When it comes to deep frown lines and facial wrinkles, people usually turn to Botox injections to solve the problem. As science progressed, newer anti-wrinkle solutions such as Dysport are developed to offer less expensive and more effective cosmetic solutions to skin aging. Similar to face lifts or cosmetic surgery, Dysport injections also require a little down time to wait for its anti-wrinkle results to fully take effect. The wait will be worth it for the results of Dysport treatment usually lasts up to 6 months.

The other advantages of the new anti-wrinkle treatment, Dysport over Botox are the area of treatment and limited allergic reactions. Dysport can relax the muscles in a larger area with a single injection than Botox and patients report fewer allergic reactions from Dysport. The reason for this is that the antibodies don’t seem to attack Dysport, the way they do Botox, and Dysport spreads further into surrounding tissues. A word of caution is that you don’t want it to spread into areas where you do not want the relaxing of the underlying muscles to prevent contractions.

To fully understand the extent of Dysport’s benefits, let us take a look at the nature of deep wrinkles and frown lines. The repetitive expressions of your face usually leave an imprint on the underlying muscles of the skin. With that, the muscles contract at the same exact spots resulting to the gradual formation of wrinkles. The underlying muscles tend to crease. With age, as the skin degrades its production of collagen and elastin, these creases on the muscles reach through the surface of the skin where it usually leaves visible lines. As the texture and the moisture on the skin degrade, the deeper your visible wrinkles get.

Dysport works similar to Botox in paralyzing the underlying muscles of the skin. This way, it smoothens out the creases on the muscles and delivers the same effect to the outer layers of the skin. Dysport injections also work out getting the youthful plumpness of the skin. Until the antibodies attack the injected Dysport solution, you can enjoy its effective wrinkle-free solution.

With the discovery of Dysport, it is possible that you will see pricing on Botox come down as more choices are available for the patients that want these affordable treatments. To stay competitive, cosmetic experts will offer both, or offer the new anti-wrinkle treatment, Dysport to make treatments more affordable, increase business and their profit margins, since the product is cheaper to them, too.

Of course, most patients also decide to mix other treatments such as microdermabrasion and collagen treatments to boost the skin’s ability to maintain elasticity and retain moisture to eliminate surface wrinkles, sagging and crow’s feet. But for the deep surface wrinkles and frown lines, the new anti-wrinkle treatment, Dysport offers some clear advantages over other treatments, including Botox.

Joyce Pendelthumb: an authority when it comes to skin care and laser hair removal. She’s spent many years writing about skin care issues, anti-wrinkles and now Dysport treatments.  She’s been writing for others who have interests in Skin Care across Chicago, Arizona and other cities. For further information on Dysport and Skin Care go to The New Botox Competitor.

What Causes Wrinkles Anyways?

You know… those funny wiggly lines by the mouth, around the eyes and forehead! Wasn’t it wonderful in your youth, you never had to worry about your skin or if you were in the sun, how much you smiles or frowned! Unfortunately, as we all get older some of our earlier recreational activities may just catch up to us. From all the hours at the beach or tanning at pool side. Maybe you’ve just been a really happy person or loved to laugh. All of those Innocent  times we had are now our enemy! Yes.. i said enemy… why? Because all those activities and the years have caused us to have wrinkles.

Now, it’s not just the activities but good ‘ol mother nature herself. Most wrinkles are cause by the reduction of collagen the body produces as we get older. Plus the skin looses it’s elasticity which is another culprit in wrinkles.  The more sun we are exposed to as we get older is a huge contributor to our wrinkles. But, it’s not only the sun but other natural elements like wind, heat and cold. Smoking is a big no no if you are worried about wrinkles. The smoke inhibits the repair cycle of skin so if you are sun tanning and smoking, you are definately increasing your chances of wrinkles.

Other factors that effect our skin are just normal aging, your genetics and skin type. Even though we can’t control when we are going to get wrinkles, we can control some of the contributing factors.

If you do have wrinkles and are looking for a way to either eliminate or reduce them, look into Dysport. This is a newly approved FDA treatment for wrinkles. It’s a botox competitor and may even be better.

Benefits of Dysport over Botox…

Ok… so why should i get Dysport over Botox?

Even though there are very minor differences between Dysport and Botox, there is enough to make one decide that Dysport is superior.

(1) For instance, Dysport has a better spreading radius, thus can help smooth-out wrinkles in a larger area.

(2) It is reported to actually work faster than Botox. Instead of seeing results in 3-7 days like Botox, some people have actually seen the treatments work within a couple days!

(3) Pricing will be a big part of the equation for many people. With the introduction of a competitor to Botox, which as been unchecked for over 5 years, pricing should start to decline especially if Dysport wants to be competitive and try to take over the multi-Million dollar industry!

For now, those are the top 3 reasons consumers will look to Dysport as an alternative to Botox. But if you look at those, they are pretty good reasons to switch-over or at least give Dysport a try. It should be cheaper, work better and use less of the product thus fewere treatments.

But, each person will have to decide what’s important to them.

Dysport – Can it Work for me?

Just a couple interesting facts about Dysport first…

(1) Even though Dysport has just been FDA approved, it was once know as Reloxin.

(2) It’s been in use in over 21 other countries for 17 years… some of these include the U.K., Italy, New Zealand, Germany, and Switzerland to name just a few.

So, can it work for you? Yes, especially if you used Botox before. Dysport is basically same, it is derived from the same toxin as Botox (botulinum toxin type A). But, the way Dysport is formulated it is reported to have a lower concentration of protein in it’s solution. Due to this, Dysport is said to have a better spreading effect that Botox.

Is this good or bad? Like anything there are two sides… yes, this could be a very good thing for consumers. First, if Dysport wants to be competitive with Botox, it should position itself as a better and cheaper solution to becoming wrinkle free! If that occurs, and it should, then the consumer will benefit from a better spreading and more cost effective solution to their wrinkles! Of course there could be a down-side to this as well… with the better spreading, the administrator must be cautious as to how close they get to certain facial muscles. If the spread get to far, there could be some side-effects like dropping eye-lid, eye-lid swelling but these effects are not permanent and go away.

Other side-effects that can occurr are: headaches, swelling and reddness, injection site skin reactions, soar throat and nasal cavities, sinus inflammations, fatigue, neck pain and others.

What is Dysport?

Dysport is the newest neuromuscular blocking agent to be approved by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration). Sweet!! Ummm… what does this mean? Well, it means a couple of things that can be very important to anyone who has wrinkles and wants them gone!

(1) First, it means that there i a direct competitor to Botox! This is a very good thing for consumers as it will or at least should cause some type of pricing war. If that happens then each of these treatments should become cheaper for the average person.

(2) It’s reported that Dysport actually has a better spreading radius, thus it can cover more wrinkle area with the same about of toxin used. So, with it covering a larger area you should spend less for the same type of treatments.

Of course all of this is dependant on supply and demand! But, with the foot-hold that Botox has in the market, Dysport should position itself as a better and cheaper alternative.

Keep a look-out for this new kid on the block!