Our face is the mirror to our personality. A youthful, clear and healthy face is what everybody wants. However, as the age increases the wrinkles start appearing on the face. People try out different things for avoiding or curing them. However, modern medical science provides us one of the most effective remedies for treating the aging symptoms, which is the use of botulinum toxin.

The botulinum toxin actually is a type of neurotoxin protein. It is obtained from the bacterium clostridium botulinum. This is considered as the most poisonous substance occurring in nature. However, a German physician and poet named Justinus Kerner was the person who discovered the botulinum toxin. However, the person who isolated it was Edward Schant in the year 1949. He was successful in culturing Clostridium botulinum and isolating the toxin from the culture.

Soon after Edward Schant could isolate it, researchers found out that if small dose of botulinum toxin is injected in the skin; it can decrease the activity of the muscles in that region. This is possible because it inhibits the secretion of acetylcholine, which is secreted at the junction of the neuromuscular. All this inhibits the contraction of the muscle for a period as long as 4 to 6 months.

As this contraction is usually responsible for the wrinkles, the botulinum toxin thus prevents or inhibits wrinkles. For the first time this was tried you Alan Scott an ophthalmologist who worked in San Francisco. He had used it for treating crossed eyes and avoiding the uncontrollable blinking, which it causes. Later in order to get the approval for his discovery and the license for using and marketing it, he joined hands with a pharmaceutical company Allergan Inc.

The surgeons named Drs. Alastair and Jean Carruthers were the first ones who used botulinum toxin for the cosmetic purpose. This was in Vancouver in the year 2006.

Since then the use of botulinum toxin as for reducing the wrinkles has become worldwide. However, it is not used in a proper way it may give rise to some side effects which can be serious. However, it is a very useful and cheaply available technique and so it is this popular.

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