Hospital GroupJohannesburg, South Africa
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Netcare Group provides innovative, quality healthcare in South Africa and the United Kingdom.
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At a glance
Key planning information for botox in South Africa.
10–15 minsProcedure time
4 hospitalsList botox
Botox in South Africa is priced per case at 4 hospitals. The operation takes 10 to 15 minutes. Each hospital quotes its own price for your case.
Hospitals and clinics offering Botox in South Africa
Botox is listed by 4 hospitals in South Africa. The order reshuffles every hour so each gets equal exposure.
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Hospital GroupJohannesburg, South Africa
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Life Healthcare is a leading private hospital operator in South Africa and primarily serves the market for privately insured individuals, representing approximately eight million people. The group provides mainly acute care, high technology private hospital services.
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Private HospitalCape Town, South Africa
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The extensive hospital network includes 64 hospitals (of which 57 are majority owned by Life Healthcare and another seven in which the group holds substantial minority ownership), providing a range of healthcare services throughout South Africa.
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Medical Tourism FacilitatorCape Town, South Africa
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Surgical Bliss is a proudly South African medical tourism company based in the sunny city of Cape Town. They will gladly plan and coordinate your upcoming surgery as well as your recovery and any holiday plans that you wish to make in Cape Town.
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Description of Botox:
What is Botox?
Botox is the brand name for the medicinal type of botulinum toxin type A. Botox is an injectible aesthetic and medical treatment that acts as a muscle relaxant – Botox blocks signals from nerves, resulting in muscle paralysis in the targeted areas.
Botox is the brand name for the medicinal type of botulinum toxin type A. Botox is an injectible aesthetic and medical treatment that acts as a muscle relaxant – Botox blocks signals from nerves, resulting in muscle paralysis in the targeted areas.
What are Botox injections used for?
The most common use of Botox is to treat facial wrinkles.
Botox also treats underarm sweating, cervical dystonia, blepharospasm, strabismus, chronic migraine and sometimes back pain, bladder and pelvic floor dysfunction.
How are Botox injections carried out?
Who is not a suitable candidate for Botox?
Botox shouldn’t be injected to pregnant or breast-feeding women.
How long will the effect the Botox injections last?
Botox is not permanent and the effects last around 3 to 6 months.
The most common use of Botox is to treat facial wrinkles.
Botox also treats underarm sweating, cervical dystonia, blepharospasm, strabismus, chronic migraine and sometimes back pain, bladder and pelvic floor dysfunction.
How are Botox injections carried out?
- The injection site is cleaned and sometimes a topical anesthetic is applied.
- The doctor uses a thin needle and injects Botox into the muscle where required.
- For facial wrinkles, the doctor typically injects four or five times on either side of the forehead and two or three times into the area around each eye.
Who is not a suitable candidate for Botox?
Botox shouldn’t be injected to pregnant or breast-feeding women.
How long will the effect the Botox injections last?
Botox is not permanent and the effects last around 3 to 6 months.
About Botox
Key facts to plan your treatment: how long it takes, your hospital stay, anaesthesia, risks and recovery.
Duration of surgery/treatment
The Botox injections procedure takes around 10 to 15 minutes to carry out.
Number of sessions required
Sometimes patients need 2 or 3 sessions of Botox injections to treat deep wrinkles. To maintain the results from you need injections every 2 or 3 months.
Days admitted
None.
Anesthesia
None. The doctor or nurse will sometimes give medicine to numb the injection site.
Recovery
You can resume your normal activities immediately following Botox.
You should avoid lying down or looking down for 2 to 4 hours following the Botox procedure.
Results are noticed in 3 to 10 days.
Risks
- Temporarily drooping eyelids.
- Pain at the site of the injection.
- Flu-like symptoms.
- Headaches.
- Upset stomach.
- Muscle weakness.
- Eye pain.
- Allergic reaction.
After care
- Take painkillers to ease any discomfort.
- Don’t rub or massage the treated areas.
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