Benefits of Dental Botox

Did you know that dentists often offer Botox treatments to their patients? Dentists are actually some of the most qualified people to offer these treatments to patients instead of other providers. Their ten years of training in understanding the structures of your face and mouth is why. Find out how dental Botox works, why you should go to a dentist for this treatment and what you can expect!

Dental Training and Experience

Dentists have to go through 10 years of schooling in order to work on a patient’s mouth. Those years include four years of undergraduate training. The other six are education and training in oral and maxillofacial areas. Maxillofacial means all the areas in between your chin and your forehead.

That means, not only do dentists train for at least 6 years focusing on your mouth (teeth, gums, tongue, cheeks, jaw, and all the tissues in between), but also the tissues of your face. This is how they are trained to know how to use dental anesthesia and where to place it in your gums and cheeks so that you don’t feel pain with dental procedures.

Dental anesthesia is a major aspect of dental training. Dentists must know where specific nerves, blood vessels, and tissues lie in your face and mouth. When removing decay, they pinpoint the exact areas of nerves that need to be numbed so you go throughout your procedure pain-free. No other professional is trained quite in this same way, even if they use needles or are professionals with the face.

What Is Botox?

Botox is a treatment administered via injection that helps with fine lines and wrinkles, and it was first introduced by professionals in the plastic surgery field. On it’s own, Botox can actually be a deadly substance, as it is a neurotoxin, or a neurotoxic protein. This protein comes from the bacterium “clostridium botulinum”, which you may know by the term “botulism”. Ingested the wrong way into the body, it can be deadly.

However, the Botox brand substance can be safely injected into the muscles to be used for aesthetic and dental purposes. The substance has a relaxing effect on muscles. This relaxes the lines in your face that create fine lines and wrinkles. The effects can last for months, where the substance will eventually diminish over time.

Botox is an FDA-approved purified protein injected straight into the muscles. It can do wonders for facial aesthetics.More and more non-plastic surgery centers are now starting to offer these types of injections with little or no training. Injections can be cheap and administered by office workers instead of professionals. Even tanning places and similar small shops are able to administer Botox injections. The only downside is the regulation of what professionals and non-professionals can administer this substance safely.

Why Dental Botox?

When working with chemical substances, be careful about what you are putting into your body and how. You would never want someone with absolutely zero training to perform surgery on your body. Why would you let them inject Botox into your system? You should only receive care from the highest-trained professional available. Dental botox is the safest way to receive Botox injections. Dental botox is administered by a trained dental professional.

Dentists are perhaps the most qualified people to administer Botox injections. Their many years of training focuses on the face, including the nerves and tissues of the face. Plastic surgeons can perform these injections. However, their training isn’t as specialized and centered solely on the face like a dentist trains. Dentists can perform dental botox on any part of the face because they know the intricate systems of nerves and where to place injections. There are very few, if any, other professionals that have the level of facial anatomy and aesthetics training as dentists do.

Dental Botox and How It Benefits You

Most people want to look the best they can, and we want you to look and feel great as well. That is why we not only help problems with tooth decay and gum disease, but we also provide aesthetic treatments such as teeth whitening. The goal is to make you look better so you feel better and are more successful in all that you do. Dental botox can take years off of your appearance, helping to remove fine lines and wrinkles that you notice.

The full effect of dental botox takes 3-5 days to fully take effect, but it can last anywhere between 3 and 6 months. Treated facial muscles can appear smooth on your face, making you look younger while still allowing you to move your face normally. If you choose to receive your injections from a licensed dentist, you are putting your health first and foremost. Because of a dentist’s training, dental botox can work to achieve the effects you want without high risks. Injections from the untrained could damage tissues, blood vessels and your facial features.

Trust the Professionals with Dental Botox

A dentist can provide you dental botox until you are satisfied with the result. More than 2.8 million people in the United States get Botox each year in the U.S., and some of those users end up injured because it was not dental botox they received. Trusting any provider—especially those with no training—can potentially lead to lifelong damages to your face. Nobody wants that. To learn more about dental botox and the benefits it has over other methods of receiving Botox, call Stonebrook Family Dental at (303) 872-7907!