Strategies for Extended Botox Results

Name: Strategies for Extended Botox Results
Uploaded: 2024-05-07T12:00:48+00:00
Duration: 51 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Dr. Charles Mok explains how higher Botox doses extend results. The original 20-unit glabella dose worked for about two-thirds of patients for three…

7 May 2024 · 1 min

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Dr. Charles Mok explains how higher Botox doses extend results. The original 20-unit glabella dose worked for about two-thirds of patients for three months. Bumping to 30 units gets 95% response lasting three to four months, and doubling the dose adds roughly 50% more duration.

Questions this video answers

20 units, approved in 2003 (as stated by the speaker).

About two-thirds of people get a decent response, lasting about three months.

About 95% of people respond; duration about three and a half to four months (roughly 3–4 months).

Duration increases by roughly 50% (speaker: "they'll last twice as long. It'll last about 50% longer").

Xeomin (speaker said the effect is "more so with xeomin than with Botox Newsport").

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So what happens if you use more units? There's a dose duration curve. Let's say the glabella, which is between the eyes. The first approved dose was 20 units by Botox in 2003. That time it was the newest thing. 20 units, you'll have about two thirds of people getting a decent response. They'll last about three months. However, if you do 30 units, about 95% of people for about three and a half months, if you zoom in, lasts just a little bit longer, but we're seeing it about three and a half to four months now. If you double the dose of neurotoxin, you go from 30 to 60, then they'll last twice as long. It'll last about 50% longer, more so with xeomin than with Botox Newsport. They're not quite as linear. If I have somebody that's traveling away, they're going to Europe for six months. I'm put 100 units ago. There's no risk to it spreading into other areas. For that units, it'll just last longer.