Crows Feet and Fine Lines Botox or Microdermabrasion

Everyone looks into the mirror one day and suddenly there are deep lines around the eyes, mouth, and across the forehead. Laugh lines are no laughing matter, especially if your career is one where youth is associated with power, achievement, expertise, and profit.

Many people fear aging. This is a simple fact of life. However, the fear of aging takes on significant experience in today's world. Many people are afraid that their spouse will leave them for someone younger. While a high divorce rate is not common, especially among professionals ? or in the past the nobility ? it does not diminish the level of fear many people live with.

Face it, as your body sags, and your eyes wrinkle, you start to notice younger people who may want a short cut to the good life by marrying an older person. And face it, older people are flattered by the attention.

While you cannot turn the clock back, it is not unheard of to have plastic surgery to make yourself look younger. While plastic surgery will not ? ever ? save a struggling marriage, it may give you back your confidence.

Saving a relationship is a poor reason to have botox or Microdermabrasion, and that is not the reason I write this article. However, feeling empowered, reducing stress, and enjoying your life is a good reason to improve the way you look.

After all, you only get one life. Why spend it pining for your youth when you can turn the clock back with a simple procedure.

Microdermabrasion

Microdermabrasion is a small procedure that rejuvenates the skin, reduces the appearance of scares, removes fine lines, and eliminates the effects of acne. The procedure is simple. The top layer of dead skin is removed promoting the production of new cells in the deepest layer of the skin.

Microdermabrasion is not actually plastic surgery. Treatments are preformed at a doctor's office, salon, or spa.

The skin is sandblasted with aluminum oxide crystals through a wand that suctions itself to the skin. The technician controls the suction level. Treatments are relatively painless and do not require anesthesia.

Treatments take 20 - 30 minutes for the face to be treated. The face, neck, and upper chest can take an hour. Courses of microdermabrasion consist of 4 - 8 treatments at 1 ? 3 week intervals. The cost ranges from $50 - $300 depending on the procedure and clinic.

Microdermabrasion, also called the "lunch-time" peel, allows patients to return immediately to their daily routine. There may be a slight irritation, or wind-burnt sensation during treatment that may last for several hours. The skin turns pink for an average of one to three days.

Botox

Botox treatments are also temporary, lasting up to six weeks. Even if the patient suffers side effects, they will dissipate within six months, max. However, botox is extremely safe but there are some side effects including bruising, flu symptoms, headaches, repiratory infection, muscle weakness, and nausea.

On the up side, Botox has been cited as a possible treatment for migrains.

It involves injecting Botox into the face to reduce the appearance of lines, or into the neck to reduce the appearance of cords.

Botox has only been around for a decade, so there is a lack of clinical data on the product, but at the moment, there does not appear to be any long term side-effects of Botox injections. However, there is no fear of contracting botulism from the injections.

A single treatment can cost as much as $500.

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