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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Sali Hughes

From teeth grinding to sweaty palms, Botox can fix a lot more than wrinkles

Prop Stylist: Yvonne Achato. Assistant: Declan Slattery

What does someone who gets Botox look like? Taut, rich, fake, “done”? Anyone who pigeonholes such people is at least a decade behind the times and unaware of how toxin injections may be helping their friends, colleagues and neighbours with a number of non-beauty-related complaints, from excessive sweating to teeth grinding.

I suffer from neither, but Dr Joanna Christou of the Cosmetic Skin Clinic in London treats these and many other complaints in the same way she softens my frown lines.

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