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Article: The next great drug Botox is not just manly now, its going to change the world. (the body).
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- Esquire
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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"YOU'LL GET addicted to it," said a young lady with skin so perfect you could almost see your reflection in it. "It's great stuff." She advised me of this just before plastic surgeon Rod Rohrich, chairman of the department of plastic surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, arrived to jack me up with Botox to smooth my wrinkled brow.
Botox--our next drug of choice? Well ... yes. Though it used to be known as strictly a chick thing, a kind of poor woman's face-lift, it has turned out to be much more. For one thing, as I discovered firsthand, it can be a useful guy thing, too. (See sidebar, next page.) But more important, this diluted form of ...