A Prospective Study of the Effect of Botulinum Toxin A on Masseteric Muscle Hypertrophy-Preliminary Report

利用肉毒桿菌改善方形臉初步報告

黃耀主(Peter Huang) ； 張士人(Shih-Jen Chang) ； 劉貴寶(Kwei-Shih Liu) ； 陳明庭(Ming-Ting Chen)

《中華民國整形外科醫學會雜誌》 11卷1期 (2002/03) Pp. 21-26

https://doi.org/10.7096/JPSA.200203.0021

摘要

肉毒桿菌近來已被視爲是除皺聖品，由於它具有方便，迅速，風險低等特性，在醫界也開始研究如何將肉毒桿菌的應用層面加以擴展，敏盛綜合醫院就利用肉毒桿菌注射方法來改善方形臉。從2001年12月至今共有六位病例接受肉毒桿菌注射並得到滿意的結果。

並列摘要

This is a prospective study of effect of botulinum toxin A (BOTOX) on masseteric muscle hypertrophy. Six patients (Four bilateral and two unilateral masseteric muscle hypertrophy) were evaluated. Each patient was recorded using subjective and objective scoring system one month, two months, and three months after injection of botulinum toxin A. All six patients showed remarkable improvement of facial contour for the first three months after treatment. There was no complaining of any side effect after the treatment except for one patient who experienced mild weakness on chewing for the first two weeks. This study shows that botulinum toxin A is a safe and effective method in treating masseteric muscle hypertrophy.

並列關鍵字

masseter hypertrophy ； botulinum toxin A ； BOTOX