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Twenty-five years of Botox
It's quarter of a century since the world's most popular cosmetic treatment was discovered by two doctors working in Vancouver.
The husband and wife team discovered the skin-smoothing properties of botulinum toxin, which until then had been viewed primarily as a poison.
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