Botox

Botulinum toxin has decades of medical and cosmetic use behind it, in trained hands. The health history and medication review come before any recommendation, and the dose is conservative. Anyone pregnant or breastfeeding should wait.

It depends on the height of your forehead, how strong the muscle is, and how much movement you want left in it. The assessment watches you raise your brows and feels where the muscle is thickest, then gives you a specific unit range. You know the number and the price before anything begins.

Often a little less than the rounds that follow. The muscle is at full strength and has never been treated before, so it comes back sooner. Once you are treating on a rhythm, each result tends to hold longer than the one before it.

They do opposite jobs. Botox relaxes muscles that crease the skin, which is why it suits the forehead and crow's feet. Fillers like Restylane and the RHA family put volume back where the face has lost it. Plenty of patients use both, in one treatment plan, at different times.

There is no age that switches this on. Some people come in their late 20s when a frown line has stopped fading. Others wait until it bothers them at rest. At the consultation, Catherine looks at your lines at rest and recommends a mix of treatment and skin care to start with now.

$15.50 a unit, and $13.95 a unit for Beauty Bank members. Pricing is per unit, so your total follows the number of units each area needs. The count and the total are confirmed before treatment begins. Consultations are complimentary, with no deposit.

Cosmetically: forehead lines, frown lines and crow's feet. Botox also treats chronic migraine and underarm sweating, and those five are its FDA-approved uses. Bunny lines, a brow lift, a lip flip, a gummy smile, chin dimpling, neck bands, masseter slimming, clenching and TMJ are off-label uses, covered at your consultation.

Your muscles go back to moving the way they always did, and the lines return to where they were. Nothing is worse for having been treated. What you keep is the stretch of years in which that crease was not being deepened every day, so most people who stop simply pick up where they left off.

Yes. Forehead lines and crow's feet bring most male patients in, and jaw clenching and underarm sweating bring the rest. Male muscle is usually stronger, so the number goes up. Placement avoids lifting the outer brow, since that feminizes a face quickly.

Three to four months is the usual window before movement creeps back. A strong muscle shortens it, and so does a long gap between visits. At each visit Catherine asks when your last round began to fade, and times the next appointment from that.

Botox is a prescription injectable that temporarily blocks the signal telling a muscle to contract. Relax the muscle and the skin above it stops being folded, so lines from repeated movement soften. Dysport and Daxxify work the same way with slightly different behavior, and all three are kept here.

From a purified protein called botulinum toxin type A, prepared with stabilizing ingredients so that tiny, measured amounts can be injected safely. It has decades of use behind it across medical and aesthetic care. Allergies and past reactions come up at your consultation.

Each one spreads through muscle a little differently. Dysport tends to diffuse more, which suits a broad forehead. Botox stays tighter to the point where it is placed, which matters near the brow or the eye, and Daxxify is the third option. Migraine, sweating, masseter and neck work are always done with Botox.

The two vertical lines between your brows, made by the glabellar muscles pulling inward every time you concentrate. They are one of the areas Botox is FDA-approved to treat, and the one most people notice first, because the crease sits in shadow and reads as a frown you never meant to make.