Was wondering if anyone has had "intradermal botox" and what your thoughts are on it.
What it is: Botox injected superficially into the skin (not into the muscular level) around the cheeks and nose in "micro" doses. It apparently causes the pores to close up, leaving the skin in these areas smooth and poreless looking, also decreasing the "shine" of oily skin. If done correctly (very superficially), it will not cause paralysis of this area. Supposedly in the cheek area, when the pores close up, it will also give a subtle lifting effect on this area.
Pros that I can see: Really smooth skin, decrease in oil/sebum production,shrunken pores and slightly lifted cheeks. My forehead sometimes gets shiny after botox, but apparently this only happens when the stuff is injected into the muscle, not superficially (the opposite supposedly happens).
Cons: Sounds really expensive, time consuming for the injector, and potentially devastating to anyone injected too deeply by an injector inexperienced in this "new(?)" technique. I guess if injected too deeply, you'd get total paralysis of this area until the botox wears off.
I first heard about this several years ago from Dr. Lam who was researching some Asian doc overseas who were doing it. He had not started doing it yet and I don't think does it to date. I researched it a little lately and found some docs overseas that do it, but only one doctor in the U.S. that does it: Dr. Kamran Jafri in NYC
http://tinyurl.com/2dfn33hI don't know anything about this doctor, nor am I endorsing/plugging him. Just wanted to see if anyone has done this, knows of any other U.S. docs doing it and/or your thoughts. It sounds really promising.
Miss J/Moderators-- don't know if this should be in this forum or the skin care forum, but put it here where I thought the most "traffic" comes. My apologies if this topic has been discussed before.
