Botox for Mild Breast Lift, Surgeons Say

Botox continues to be one of the most widely used wrinkle treatments, but, as women all over must know by now, this is not all it’s good for. Botox can also be used to treat excessive sweating on such special occasions as the Oscars night or some other awards ceremony, as many A-listers already do. As of late, it has been revealed that Botox injections can also be given with the result of a mild breast lift, WebMD informs.

Injected into the muscle, Botox can lead to a mild lift in the bust with the obvious advantage that it leaves no scarring and is not painful, as opposed to surgical procedures that have the same result. On the downside, the use of Botox for this purpose has not been approved yet – which means it can have consequences that have not been properly analyzed yet – and some surgeons are still skeptical about whether this is really the best way to go to correct a flaw.

For starters, the mild lift lasts for as long as Botox lasts before breaking down and being assimilated in the body, that is, roughly three months. “A Botox breast lift involves injecting Botox into the pectoralis minor chest muscle, which allows the back muscles to compensate by lifting the breast, explains Karol Gutowski, MD, the head of the division of plastic surgery at North Shore University Health System in Evanston, Ill.” WebMD further explains. However, the same lift could be achieved with a better back posture, the same expert says.

This means less money, less bother and, most importantly, no use of Botox for which documentation is still lacking. “You can probably get the same effect by altering your posture. The muscle in question, the pectoralis minor, is covered by the pectoralis major and it would be very difficult to target the smaller muscle that is covered by [the] larger muscle. Other muscles of the shoulder, back, and chest play a role, so it is very hard to believe that just weakening the pectoralis minor would give any type of effect. I would give this two thumbs down.” Gutowski says for the aforementioned publication.

Another argument against the use of Botox for the chest is that it costs too much money and, in the long run, it might not even return the kind of results one might hope. This is, after all, other specialists warn, a considerably larger muscle than those in the face. Hitting the gym and perhaps even taking a few posture lessons might work better than having Botox injected in the breast. Still, women out there should know that there is always this possibility, should all else fail.