Botox Treatment Paper

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Botox Treatment In this paper, I will discuss the sociological motives of individuals who elect to receive cosmetic surgery or procedures in order to gain benefits or results that are both physical and sociological in nature. Also, specifically, I will review the most prominent medicinal and aesthetic uses for the chemical compound commonly referred to as Botox. Botox is a drug, derived as a by-product of the bacteria Clostridium botulinum, which is a widely accepted treatment used for eliminating facial wrinkles and other muscular conditions. People usually receive this treatment about the face for numerous reasons; wrinkles upon the face, lines on the neck and forehead, and for eyebrows that are too baggy. One might also seek out this …show more content…
Ehrenfield (2013) compares Botox in two different theories; facial feedback and mimicry. In facial feedback Ehrenfield describes a psychologist named Robert Zajonc who tested people on the corners of their mouths. Zajonc, had patients make a long “e” sound which lengthens both corners of someone’s mouth and makes them look happy. Zajonc then had the patients make a long “u” sound which then makes the person look angry or upset. Without question, the patients felt better about making the long ‘e” sound than the “u” sound. Ehrenfield describes mimicry in a way when a person sticks out their tongue to a baby, the baby may stick out their tongue right back, or if a person smiles at a baby, the baby may seem happy and smile at them. When people receive a Botox treatment for the eyebrows or corners of the mouth, the muscles are paralyzed and people are unable move them on their own. Botox treatment may be blunting the emotional roles people have endured for years. Sharif (2013) gives an example in her thesis about the question of Botox buffering the negative effects of social rejection. In Sharif’s thesis, sixteen adults aged from thirty-five to sixty-five who seeked Botox treatment for cosmetic purposes were given a Botilinum injection into the corrugator supercilii muscle for anger, or a placebo (saline) injection into that same muscle. This study used a double-blind, so half of the participants were given either injections of Botox or saline. These injections are to correlate by decreasing the effect of social rejection on self-esteem, control, meaningful existence, aggression and their overall mood. The study shows that there is no decrease in the effect of social rejection but rather an increase. Since there was an opposite turn in the predictions of injections of Botox and a saline placebo, there must be further testing on facial feedback for
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