Hi – Dr Raymond Lister here.

I have to say that I find Botox most impressive in the upper face – and particularly for forehead lines. However wrinkles on the forehead, or forehead lines, are not without their challenges.

A smooth botox forehead

One of the major problems here is that the muscle that we are treating, (called the Frontalis muscle) is rather important in holding the eyebrows up!

S0 – although we DO want to weaken the Frontalis, we also want to preserve the part that holds the eyebrows up – An eyebrow droop is not an attractive sight, and there is not much that can be done for it, other than wait the 3-4 months for the Botox to wear off.  There is one very important place where your physician should NOT be injecting you and that is Read the rest of this entry »

Hi – Dr Raymond Lister here.

A relatively grey area for Botox is in the treatment of migraines. We know that muscular tension is important in the causation of headaches, and we know that Botox interferes with muscular activity, but it seems that the Botox is possibly also interfering with the transmission in nerve pain fibres.

Botox can help some migraines

The results are reasonably impressive.  if you would like to know more, you can read a fuller account by clicking here.

There are however some dangers associated with Botox that you should be aware of and Read the rest of this entry »

Hi – Dr Raymond Lister here.

I have been injecting Botox for many years and have seen all sides of the ‘Botox Industry’.

In the right hands Botox injections will make a huge difference to your lines and wrinkles.

In the wrong hands, you will wish you had kept well away! You need to be empowered to make the right decisions – to see the right physician, to select the correct treatment, to pay the correct cost, and to ask for additional treatments that othere smay not have even heard of. It is essential that you are well informed and be a responsible and empowered patient. Find out more here.