The meeting*, which took place in London in October 2005, was chaired by the Channel Four news broadcaster Jon Snow*.

Mr Almallah was one of the first surgeons in the UK to introduce botox for patients with overactive bladders and urge incontinency.

During the same meeting, Mr Almallah also ran a workshop on the management of urinary incontinence.

“People often associate botox with beauty treatments without realising that it brings many very important benefits to many areas of medicines,” explains Mr Almallah.

“The overactive bladder is caused by muscles which spasm involuntarily.

“We know that botox is highly effective because it Botox blocks the chemicals which make these muscles spasm.
“Botox paralyses the overactive muscles without harming the normal, surrounding muscles.

“We have treated 30 patients with botox and found it to be very successful in terms of treating patients who have not responded to medication.

“From a patient’s point of view, the major benefit is that botox can be injected, using local anesthetics and this process only takes a few minutes, although it is likely that it will need to be repeated after about ten months.”

Please click here to see the full list of our most recent news.