Startling ‘Teen Toxic’ Botox Boom

Kids as young as thirteen are now going in for Botox shots in an endeavour at garnering a swift mend for professed beauty imperfections.

Physicians in the United States have performed over twelve thousand aesthetic procedures on teens during 2009 and the figures only continue to shot up annually.

Representatives at the American Society of Plastic Surgeons have pointed out that even though several teens have opted for the jabs for medical reasons instead of aesthetic, yet they were looking for a means of promptly rectifying their appearances.

The wrinkle-busting drug is being employed on an array of supposed flaws like correcting excessive gums being revealed when smiling or also a square-shaped jaw line.

The booming Botox trend among teenagers came into focus when a young artist made a clean breast about her foremost stop to her cosmetologist’s clinic following a role being garnered in the television series ‘Glee’.

The eighteen-year-old famous Philippine child artist Charice Pempengco came clean that she had opted for Botox for prepping herself for her upcoming part in the tele-series. Pempengco stated that she is keen on looking fresh when facing the cameras and has gone for a skin-tautening method dubbed ‘Thermage’ and Botox.

Sentient about the tempest that arose following she confession with a well-known celeb blogger Ms. Perez Hilton who called her ‘sick’, the songster’s representative refuted the shots were for aesthetic purposes. However, she was chipped away at when her cosmetologist made an appearance on live Television stating that Pempengco did in fact go in for the cosmetic procedures for targeting muscles of her jaws which she felt made her appear plump.

Several doctors do admit that this is a popularly opted method among a number of females in S.E Asia. Yearly, almost 4 million adults opt for Botox and its usage among teenagers is nothing new-fangled.

The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has given its approval for Botox usage on any person who is twelve years old onwards.

Botox is commonly deployed for treating teenagers suffering from excess perspiration and its capability of freezing muscles which translates to the fact that it is effectual in averting undesired eye-twitching.

However, in the recent past, an increasing number of Hollywood celebs have owned up to the use of Botox for tackling aging and this has only influenced a large populace of teens to ape their idols.

Physicians have cautioned against the surging popularity of Botox that can loosen your purse strings by around sixty dollars per course of therapy.

Botox could be unsafe in case proper regulation is not followed. Doctors dub the Botox trend as ‘teen-toxic’ which can cause pointless complications when conducted by an unskilled injector who is not a doctor.

Also largely teenagers do not have wrinkles and Botox is not capable of preventing innate aging. Until there is a pressing requirement, specialists recommend that Botox must not be offered to people below eighteen years of age.

Psychologists point out that teenagers who seek Botox are actually concealing a grave deeper issue (often self-worth) that need to be addressed promptly. Their feelings of being inadequate in some way are to be addressed firstly by parents rather than allowing them permission to mask a so-dubbed wrinkle.

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