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In the grips of recession jobs, homes and fortunes have been lost and the financial belts of New Zealanders have tightened.
Big ticket buys have been put on hold and in turn some businesses have folded.
But as the economy has crinkled statistics suggest more of our faces are being ironed out - thanks to the treatment Botox. Industry figures boast an 11% growth in treatments nationally.
Sonia Voigt discovered that while many Kiwis will cut spending in some areas the wrinkled - and not so wrinkled - won't go without their Botox.
What do we know about the impact of Botox? A British study found patients expressed a compulsive desire for more treatments but Dr Carter Singh who conducted the research claims that does not equate to addiction.
Mark Sainsbury spoke to him in his London clinic and asked if botox was a self esteem injection.
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