Botox and Age

Botox, meaning botulinum toxin, is applied at much younger ages as well. Not for cosmetic purposes, but for various different reasons. For example, someone drools a lot, and it is applied for that. Someone has a different kind of muscle clenching, and it is applied for that. So the first message is that regardless of age, botulinum toxin can be administered. The second message is: twenty-four years old—young compared to whom, old compared to whom? A patient with thin skin, dry skin, who smokes, who has been exposed to a lot of sun can very easily look older than someone who is forty. When you apply toxin to a person who is twenty-four or a person who is fifty, when you apply botulinum toxin, you should not do an application that makes the person expressionless—so that even when they receive bad news they say, “Oh really? I’m so surprised,” without creating any facial expression—or an application that would ruin the profession of someone like you who earns money from this and exists in front of the camera with facial expressions. Regardless of age, the person applying it needs to perform the procedure in the right place.