Latest Use for Botox: Turn Your Frown Upside Down (sort of)
For Allergan, the maker of Botox, the holidays really are the most wonderful time of the year. Appointments for Botox reach a peak during the holiday season and the reason is not just to look good at those corporate holiday events. An increasing number of women are having treatments not just to soften those lines and wrinkles but to look “less sad”.
How does this work? “The motion creates the emotion” is the explanation of Dr. Micheal Prager. Basically, if you can create the physical appearance of happiness, then the emotional change will follow, or so goes the theory. Many in the mental health industry caution that without meaningful internal changes, this effect may be short-lived.
So Botox may help to soften that Grumpy Cat face and make you less of a Grinch over the Holidays. Perhaps a little visit from the Ghost of Christmas Botox could have helped Scrooge a bit more.
On a more serious note, other research is underway investigating whether Botox injected into the brow region may help with chronic depression. Further studies are needed but early findings are promising.
This full article was originally presented in The Telegraph
