How Heat And Motion Influence Botox Results

Name: How Heat And Motion Influence Botox Results
Uploaded: 2024-05-01T16:00:38+00:00
Duration: 35 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Dr. Charles Mok explains how heat and cold affect Botox absorption after injection. Heat speeds uptake, cold slows it, but neither matters much…

1 May 2024 · 1 min

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Dr. Charles Mok explains how heat and cold affect Botox absorption after injection. Heat speeds uptake, cold slows it, but neither matters much clinically. Light muscle movement right after injection may slightly hasten results, though the difference is minimal.

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Now, what makes it uptake faster is a few things. One is heat. Now, we don't need to heat the area up, but out here, don't get in a sauna afterwards, don't get exposed to heat. Heat would actually make it work faster. Now, cold, on the other hand, would make it work slower, but it would be immaterial. So if you ice the area down, theoretically it might take 20 minutes for it to be taken up, but it doesn't really matter. So temperature has no effect on the clinical outcome, Motion does. Motion arguably would make it take up faster and get a little better response. So that could have a benefit. In medical Botox, we're doing large units in the big muscle. We do have them exercise the muscle for concentrating. Botox probably doesn't really matter.
Motion. You mean by exercising the muscles?
Yeah, probably only for the first few minutes. So let's say you do the Botox. I can usually have the patient squinch a couple times. It might take up faster, but again, it's not clinically important.