Xeomin Treatment , the new and safer botox.

Gift certificate good application for one area, either forehead or glabella.

 Xeomin was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in July 2010 for the treatment of cervical dystonia and blepharospasm. It became available in October 2010. Xeomin has not yet been approved for an aesthetic indication. Botox and Dysport are FDA-approved for aesthetic applications.

"While Xeomin might be used off-label by some dermatologists, there is no particular significant, scientific or clinical-trial proven advantage in using it off-label compared to Botox or Dysport," says Dr. Werschler, who has used Xeomin in Europe and conducted training programs for Merz internationally.

The currently available botulinum toxin type A toxins fall into two categories, according to Dr. Werschler. Both Botox and Dysport are complexed toxins, while Xeomin and PurTox (Mentor, currently in clinical trials) are known as "naked" toxins.

"Botox and Dysport both have the active toxin molecule, which is a protein that has a light chain and a heavy chain," he says. "In Botox and Dysport, in addition to the active (protein) ingredient, there are stabilizing proteins, hemagglutinin and nonhemagglutinin proteins, that are wrapped around it. There is some ongoing debate as to whether or not the proteins serve any vital function."

PurTox and Xeomin are not complexed, or surrounded to these carrier or chaperone proteins.

"Theoretically, there is an advantage of not having a complexing protein because the more protein mass that there is, the more likely the chances a person could potentially develop antibodies to it, which could block the effectiveness of the toxin," Dr. Werschler says.

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Introducing Xeomin, the new and safer botox for glabella or forehead area.