Botox is adored by millions for helping them achieve – well, if not eternal youth, then as least a rather shiny-faced and rigid approximation of it. However, an American doctor who specialises in cosmetic surgery is now claiming that Botox can also help combat baldness.
Dr. Simon Ourian, who is Medical Director at a firm of cosmetic surgeons in Beverly Hills named Epione, claims that he discovered this new method of treating the condition when he read studies indicating that Botox injections to the scalp might help with migraines. His mother had been undergoing chemotherapy and was suffering from them, so he decided to - and please applaud the pun – give it a shot. But low and behold, Mummy started sprouting hair around the site of the injections.
Intruiged and with a supply of patients willing to volunteer to try this out, Dr. Ourian spent three years ‘refining’ the treatment. He is now offering a botox-and-vitamin cocktail, injected into the scalp, at his clinic for quite a lot of money. He claims that because hair loss is a significant source of insecurity for many people, both men and women, there was no shortage of volunteers with thinning hair. The results for many were astonishing, and for some, a single session yielded dramatic results.”
He is certainly right that hair loss can be massively upsetting for many. It’s a bit creepy though to acknowledge this and then use that insecurity to encourage people to get toxins injected because it ‘worked for my mother’. Still, I suppose that were it not for crazy risk-takers we wouldn’t have penicillin or cookie-dough ice cream. It remains to be seen whether there will be any more detailed research done into this treatment method and we reserve the right to stay dubious for the time being. However, if it does actually work then it will probably prove wildly popular, considering how quickly people jumped to inject the stuff into their faces. Injecting into the scalp probably will seem less scary!