Pick Your Poison: Everything You Need To Know About Botox vs. Its Alternatives

“Daxxify utilizes this same botulinum toxin, but coats it in a peptide that sticks to the neurons your injector is targeting in the skin. “[This means] you get less washed away when you inject it,” says Dr. Melissa Doft, a double board-certified plastic surgeon and Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College. “[Daxxify] gets incorporated faster into the target receptors, so we’re seeing an earlier onset [in some patients].

Dr. Doft notes that some of her Daxxify patients have seen reduced muscle movement after two to three days, which could sound appealing to the impatient ones in the crowd who would rather not wait for their injections to kick in. Xeomin, Dysport and Jeuveau also claim to start working within this three-day time frame, while Botox typically resides in the four-to-five-day window.”

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