{"id":874,"date":"2017-09-07T00:39:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T00:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.injectionartistry.com\/modesto-botox\/?p=874"},"modified":"2017-09-07T00:39:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T00:39:28","slug":"blepharospasms-and-botox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.injectionartistry.com\/modesto-botox\/blepharospasms-and-botox\/","title":{"rendered":"Blepharospasms and Botox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our new employee asked me on emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Regarding blepharospasms, I was wondering if Botox could ever get rid of involuntary spasms if the muscles relaxed enough, or is Botox more of something that decreases the spasms, but can&#8217;t fully get rid of them?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So basically everything you said is right.<\/p>\n<p>The answer is: It\u2019s dose dependent.<\/p>\n<p>So If I use high enough of a dose it will all \u201cfreeze\u201d up and not move. But it would also look very frozen and weird on the patient. So I\u2019m trying to strike a balance where it just spasms a little bit where it is manageable by the patient (not painful, and not eye-shutting) but it still looks normal without one side of the face being super frozen.<\/p>\n<p>There are also some areas of the face where I don\u2019t want to inject too much Botox for fear of creating ectropion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our new employee asked me on emails: Regarding blepharospasms, I was wondering if Botox could ever get rid of involuntary spasms if the muscles relaxed enough, or is Botox more of something that decreases the spasms, but can&#8217;t fully get rid of them? So basically everything you said is right. The answer is: It\u2019s dose &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.injectionartistry.com\/modesto-botox\/blepharospasms-and-botox\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blepharospasms and Botox<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.injectionartistry.com\/modesto-botox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.injectionartistry.com\/modesto-botox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.injectionartistry.com\/modesto-botox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.injectionartistry.com\/modesto-botox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.injectionartistry.com\/modesto-botox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.injectionartistry.com\/modesto-botox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":875,"href":"https:\/\/www.injectionartistry.com\/modesto-botox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions\/875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.injectionartistry.com\/modesto-botox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.injectionartistry.com\/modesto-botox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.injectionartistry.com\/modesto-botox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}