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Why Can't You Use Botox for the Saggy Wrinkled Skin Around the Elbows?
Surely the principle is the same as for the dynamic wrinkles on the face? I know that women get very concerned about their elbows giving away their age. I'm pretty sure it would be a highly popular procedure, should it come into effect! I've never used botox myself but it just occurred to me, as my mother always moans about her saggy elbows! A gap in the market?!
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Annabel
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Botox for Saggy Skin Around Elbows?
Hi,
Botox only works on dynamic, or moving muscles. It doesn't work on saggy skin which is better treated with a tissue tightening procedure. You are better off looking at technologies that address skin laxity like Thermage CPT or Refirme.
Best,
Dr. Liu
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Why Can't You Use Botox for the Saggy Wrinkled Skin Around the Elbows?
Regarding: "Why Can't You Use Botox for the Saggy Wrinkled Skin Around the Elbows?
Surely the principle is the same as for the dynamic wrinkles on the face? I know that women get very concerned about their elbows giving away their age. I'm pretty sure it would be a highly popular procedure, should it come into effect! I've never used botox myself but it just occurred to me, as my mother always moans about her saggy elbows! A gap in the market?!"
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Botulinum Toxin (Botox and Dysport) injection and loose elbow skin
The saggy wrinkled skin around your elbows is due to lax skin and not to muscle contraction. Therefore, injecting the skin will do nothing to relax or ease the severity of the wrinkles around the elbow.
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Botox for Elbows?
Hi Anabel. The problem with the theory is that Botox does not work in situations where there is too much skin (skin laxity). Because the wrinkles on the elbow are caused by excess saggy skin rather than by muscle contraction, it cannot be treated with Botox.
Hopefully your Mom will find another solution for those saggy elbows.
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Botox and sagging elbow skin
I love your forward thinking! Unfortunately, Botox does treat the dynamic wrinkles about the face...these are lines of skin creasing caused by both thinning skin and the constant bending back and forth caused by the muscles of facial animation, much like the paper-clip breaking after bending it to and fro. The elbow skin is loose skin that genetics and age have loosened and that gravity is pulling on. Best way to treat it, currently, is an arm lift.
Thanks for the great question!
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Botox for elbow wrinkling
Unfortunately, Botox will not help wrinkling of the elbows because it is not caused by muscle movement. It is caused by excess skin in the area that gets pushed together when the arm straightens. Great hydration and moisturization is the best way to improve this condition.
I hope my answer was helpful.
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Botox - to the elbows
Botox doesn't treat saggy skin. It works by paralyzing dynamic muscles that cause wrinkles. A good thought though! There are some laser tightening treatments that help elbows.
Dr. Cat Begovic M.D.
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Botox does not work for elbow skin wrinkles
The only action of Botox is a temporary paralysis of the muscles it is injected into. If those muscles are respondsible for creasing the skin and causing wrinkles and lines, then the wrinkles and lines won't be created and the skin can appear smoother. Elbow wrinkles are caused by a lifetime of skin stretching and would not be inproved by Botox.
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Saggy elbows and botox
While in a lot of ways Botox is a miracle treatment for lines of animation, it really only works on animation lines not specifically saggy skin and therefore will not help your saggy elbows.
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Botox for saggy elbows.
Botox works by weakening muscles. Saggy elbows are not caused by muscle contraction but rather the skin laxity that occurs with age, sun damage and weight flucuations.
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