BOTOX® Cosmetic - Superficial wrinkle eraser

FDA Approved for Wrinkle Removal
Portland Oregon
 

Botox® is the most popular cosmetic procedure in the United States, offering instant results at an affordable price with miniscule risk.

The lines that appear between your brows (glabellar lines) actually result from muscle movement and the passage of time. You may have heard the expression "wearing your emotions on your sleeve," but in reality you wear them on your face. If you're angry or annoyed, for example, you knit your brows together. Underneath your skin, your facial muscles contract, cause a pleating of the overlying skin, and then, as anyone can see, you're frowning.

After years of crinkling and wrinkling, those glabellar lines start to linger longer and can become more pronounced. For women, whose faces tend to be more animated than men's, and whose skin is typically more delicate, these lines may appear exaggerated and more permanent.

Fortunately, there is a way to reduce moderate to severe glabellar lines. Treatment with BOTOX® Cosmetic can visibly smooth and soften moderate to severe frown lines between your brows. An improvement can be seen within days and may last up to 4 months, although results may vary. In clinical trials, nearly 90% of men and women surveyed rated the improvement in the appearance of frown lines between their brows as moderate to better 1 month after treatment.

The beauty of a BOTOX® Cosmetic treatment is that it's a simple, 10-minute, non-surgical process. A few tiny injections, and within days there can be a noticeable improvement in the moderate to severe frown lines between the brows that can last up to 4 months. Results may vary. And there's no recovery time. You can even do it on your lunch break.

Your doctor will administer several tiny injections of BOTOX® Cosmetic directly into the muscles that cause those moderate to severe frown lines between the brows. Your doctor will determine where to administer the injections by examining your ability to move certain muscles in your brow area. The location, size, and use of the muscles that create a furrowed brow vary markedly among individuals.

No anesthesia is required, although your doctor may choose to numb the area with a cold pack or anesthetic cream prior to injecting. Discomfort is usually minimal and brief. Most patients compare the sensation to a pin prick.

You may resume normal activity immediately. You may see a marked improvement in the moderate to severe frown lines between your brows within days. Improvement may continue for as long as a month, and could last up to 4 months.

BOTOX in Portland Oregon

Douglas J. Key, MD, PC

Let us introduce you to all of the possibilities of cosmetic medicine, specifically of the noninvasive use of lasers, light and energy to both reverse and prevent skin imperfections and the signs of aging.

The Key Laser Institute for Aesthetic Medicine is at the forefront in providing men and women in Portland with next generation skin treatment options and in sharing with our patients the knowledge and experience that has made us frequent speakers at professional symposiums around the world. Fighting the signs of aging is a personal choice and an important decision

Dr. Douglas J. Key
As a freshman at the University of California, Berkeley in the early 1960s, Douglas Key worked with a professor who was awarded a Nobel Prize for the discovery of photosynthesis. It was a life-changing experience, one that inspired the young Mr. Key to become a doctor and to devote his life to medicine, specifically molecular change.

Although generally awarded only to upper classmen, Dr. Key was granted a summer Fellowship to study experimental biology in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was the first of several Fellowships and he would spend his next three summers in various laboratories across the country.

He received his Bachelor's from the University of California, Berkeley, before graduating with a degree in Medicine from the University of California School of Medicine in San Francisco. His Dermatology residency was split between patient-focused New York University and research-intensive Yale University.

As a Clinical Fellow at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, Dr. Key's research eventually led to the development of Retina A, as well as the Vitamin derivatives that are now standards in Clinical Dermatology.

During this time, he was also actively involved in researching the possible causes and the prevention of skin cancer. His special interest was the study of the cellular mechanisms within the skin that are essential to life and that assist in the repair of tissue damaged by ultraviolet radiation.

Today, Dr. Douglas J. Key is one of the nation's leading authorities in the field of cosmetic laser treatments. A published author, he is frequently sought after by his peers to both lecture and instruct in the United States, Europe and Asia on his specialty of laser and light medical applications, skin restoration and the prevention of age-related tissue changes.

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