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Celebrate Your Newfound Youth with Natural-Looking Botox
While aging is a natural process, it’s also true that not everyone ages the same way. A lucky few seem to age without many wrinkles, while others seemingly grow old almost overnight. At Jepsen, Murphy & Associates Dental, we believe everyone deserves to look their best regardless of their biological clock. This is why our dentists help patients turn back the clock using the best anti-wrinkle injections, such as Botox.
What Can Botox Do for You?
As oral and maxillofacial anatomy and function professionals, our doctors skillfully administer Botox® injections targeting facial muscles. Botox® not only reduces wrinkles and alleviates chronic headaches, migraines, jaw and facial pain, and stiffness. This prescriptive medication is specially formulated to intervene with the processes causing these conditions, allowing patients to enjoy healthy function and a better quality of life.
Treating Dynamic Wrinkles
Dynamic wrinkles can form around your forehead and eyes when you laugh, smile, or squint. Forehead lines and wrinkles around the eyes, known as “crow’s feet,” are just two examples. Botox can help smooth these wrinkles by using botulinum toxin to temporarily relax muscle activity in those areas, thus reducing wrinkles and restoring a youthful appearance.
Botox acts as a neural signal inhibitor preventing signals from transmitting from your brain to the facial muscles being treated. After your injection, the targeted muscles will not contract with the same intensity, reducing the appearance of wrinkles and leaving smoother, more youthful-looking skin. Best of all, the effects are immediate and can last for several weeks or even months.
Is Botox Safe?
As for Botox’s overall safety, it’s safe if administered by experienced and skilled practitioners. Botox needs to be applied by a well-trained professional since an otherwise untrained hand could cause serious issues. The correct dosage and placement of each injection are the key to maintaining a natural appearance and muscle movement, avoiding problems such as a “frozen face.”
How Botox Treats TMJD
Botox has become a popular alternative therapy for treating TMJ pain. An injection into the afflicted facial muscles often relieves patients while eliminating headaches usually caused by bruxism (teeth clenching and grinding). Botox may even reduce the symptoms of lockjaw in even the most severe cases. Many patients have found lasting pain relief using Botox that lasts several months per treatment.
The temporomandibular joint (TMJ) connects the lower jaw to the upper skull and plays a vital role in everyday activities such as speaking, eating, and swallowing. But excessive clenching and teeth grinding can cause headaches and jaw pain. Thankfully, Botox has been shown to reduce pain by preventing the jaw muscles from performing the movements that trigger discomfort.
Learn More About Botox Therapy
To learn more about the benefits of Botox therapy, please schedule your appointment at Jepsen, Murphy & Associates Dental to meet with one of our talented team members. Our phone number is (303) 452-4556, and our office address is 2921 W. 120th Ave Suite #210, Westminster, CO.