What About Getting Botox at the Shopping Mall?

The quality of your Botox results depends on three things:

1. The number of units of Botox that you receive.

2. Exactly where those units are placed.

3. The concentration of the solution used.

The Botox injection community has shifted toward using both

· more units per volume of salt water injected into the face for fewer complications

· more units total for effectiveness and probably longevity

There are many, many subtleties to the placement of Botox. The most important thing for most women is for the medicine to relax the muscles that depress or bring down the eyebrows, which are the muscles between the eyebrows and the muscles out to the side of the eyebrows. In the hands of the best Botox administrators, very little Botox is placed in the forehead because this tends to drop the eyebrows. When proper Botox placement is achieved there is a beautiful eyebrow arch, and when the proper amount of Botox is used it will last longer.

I think any good registered nurse can be trained to administer Botox, and I have no doubt that there are a few Botox administrators who are operating in malls and at parties and other informal settings who do a great job. However, your chances of getting consistently excellent results are better if you stick with an established surgeon and understand that what he is doing did take training, practice and experience and is not easily duplicated without a similar background. It is not the M.D. after the name that counts, but rather the technique when using Botox.