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...Botox for the Back...
Maurizio Viel cheerfully admits that he has had a nose job and gets regular botox injections to erase the wrinkles from his tanned face. But then Viel, 41, and his twin brother Roberto are plastic surgeons who operate the London Centre for Aesthetic Surgery. And while Maurizio is a walking advertisement for the benefits of modern cosmetic surgery, their clinic needs no promoting. Business, they say, has doubled since...
...boom is fueled in large part by new, less costly "quick fix" techniques that don't involve major surgery: botox injections that temporarily eradicate facial lines, derma-fills that smooth out wrinkles and scars and build up lips and cheeks, and laser beams that zap away lines. Liposuction, the process of vacuuming fat from the body, is gaining in popularity thanks to advances in keyhole surgery and other less intrusive techniques...
...tell any of this to Randee Bank, 38, who admits she's a cosmetic-surgery junkie. You name it and the suburban New York housewife has had it done: Botox injected in her forehead to paralyze the facial muscles and prevent wrinkles from forming, liposuction on her stomach and thighs, fat transferred from her behind to her face--and lots of laser work. She's had pulse lasers to erase broken blood vessels in her cheeks, diode lasers to remove the hair on her upper lip and an Erbium laser to zap the crow's-feet around her eyes...
...years after doctors discovered the toxin's uncanny ability to smooth out wrinkles and quell tremors, a new benefit has been uncovered: botulism toxin seems to alleviate migraine headaches. In a preliminary study, half the patients whose foreheads were injected with tiny amounts of the botulism drug Botox reported that their migraine headaches disappeared--and stayed away for up to four months...