Botox injections are the most common non-surgical cosmetic procedure in the uk, and it has been that way for years. On the other hand, invasive surgical procedures have declined and reached their lowest levels in a decade, signifing that the knife is out and the needle is in.As more and more people are having Botox the taboo and secrecy around having the treatment is slowly fading away. This is partly due to the rise of reality tv and instagram celebrities who are more open

Last week I had a patient divulge to me that she wasn't too bothered about her wrinkles. She was having botox for her depression. This isn't the first time I've met such a client so I decided to do a bit of investigating into this latest use of the wonder drug. This journey takes us all the way back to the father of evolution: Charles Darwin. Darwin proposed that facial expressions feed information back to the brain. In simpler terms, when we feel unhappy we frown, but frowni