Study Finds Dysport Gives Patients Quick Results

Dysport® and BOTOX® are both known for their ability to temporarily reduce frown lines between the eyebrows and are procedures offered at Little Rock’s Cosmetic Surgery Center. If patients are looking for differences between the two, a new study indicates that Dysport® may work more quickly than BOTOX®, by about two days.

Cosmetic surgeon Dr. Joel Schlessinger presented the findings at the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery 2010 Annual Meeting; his results were of a subset analysis of a phase 3 clinical trial designed to evaluate the effectiveness of Dysport®.

The Dysport® group had 1,160 people, and 19.7 percent of the patients responded to Dysport® on day one. Three days was the median response time to the Dysport® treatment.

Dr. Schlessinger said, “There are many different neurotoxins out there, and they have different types of effects on the injected individual, depending on the physical and molecular makeup of the neurotoxin.” He went on to say that Dysport® appears to take effect slightly faster than BOTOX®, by about two days. “That can be very helpful for a person who is looking for a faster onset, especially if [he or she] has a social function coming up,” he said.

Dr. Elliot Weiss from the Laser and Skin Surgery Center of New York in New York City, said that the study “validates what clinicians have observed clinically with the use of [Dysport®] with regard to its early onset of action in many patients.”

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