The wrinkle-reducing wonder drug or the freaky facial poison; that’s Botox for you depending on which side of the battle you are on. The face-freezing frenzy which kicked off when Botox was approved by the US FDA in 2002, is now a culture force that has changed the way the rich-and-the-famous age today.
And Botox has gone through more reinventions than Madonna since it first hit the medical scene in 1989 in Canada. From treating migraines, cerebral palsy, drooling problems, sweating issues, anal fissures to muscle spasms, there is so much more to this anti-wrinkle zapper than just marbleising the facial skin.
In the latest, doctors from the American Heart Association have found that Botox injected around the heart after a bypass surgery can prevent the most common post-surgery complication, arrhythmia or irregular heartbeat which affects one-third patients.