Turns out frown lines aren't the only thing botox is good at erasing. A Mumbai-based plastic surgeon has developed a new technique to heal facial scars in a first-of-its-kind research study using the beauty toxin.

Dr Debraj Shome used the technique on as many as 100 patients, injecting them with botox, followed by surgery with a different suturing technique, and multiple sessions of carbon dioxide laser resurfacing. This is the first study of its kind to be conducted on the Asian population, which comes with its own set of issues due to melanin-rich skin. The ground-breaking research has been published in the prestigious international Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.