What Makes Dysport So Different?

Name: What Makes Dysport So Different?
Uploaded: 2025-07-30T12:00:04+00:00
Duration: 38 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: This content was created by Dr. Charles Mok. This content was uploaded by Dr. Charles Mok. This is a YouTube video titled "What Makes Dysport So…

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This content was created by Dr. Charles Mok. This content was uploaded by Dr. Charles Mok. This is a YouTube video titled "What Makes Dysport So Different?" (created 2025-07-30T12:00:04+00:00, last edited 2026-01-28T19:41:49.280403+00:00). The clip is a single-speaker explanatory segment (labelled SPEAKER A), likely a clinician, describing Dysport vs. Botox: Dysport's introduction around 2009, its greater dissimilarity to Botox, unit conversion (~1 unit Botox ≈ 2.7 units Dysport), Dysport’s tendency to spread farther than Botox (implications for areas where spread is desirable vs. where precision is needed), and the speaker’s practice choice not to use Dysport for brow lifts though noting it may work well for the forehead.

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Around 2009.

One unit of Botox ≈ 2.7 units of Dysport.

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Next one that come out was Dysport. Dysport came out right about 2009. Dysport is the most dissimilar of the neurotoxins that are out there. Most of them are almost identical to Botox. Dysport is the furthest away and the units don't even match up. So one unit of Botox is equal to about 2.7 units of Dysport. Dysport has a nice ability to spread. It spreads much further than Botox. Imagine if you inject Botox and spread the size of a dime, then Dysport might be the size of a nickel or a quarter. So that leads to pros and cons where places you might want spread it would be desirable. Places you want precision, not desirable. I never got a brow lift with this support in our patients, so for that reason I choose not to use. Arguably it would be great for the forehead.