When people see lines forming after BOTOX wears off, they assume treatment made their wrinkles worse. Actually, your face simply returns back to its natural state. No new wrinkles or lines are ever caused by these injections.
It sounds like the muscle has been knocked out with the dose you received. It will take many weeks or even months for the crease to smooth out and it is important to keep up with the Botox to keep those muscles knocked out or they will once again work on the overlying skin to reform the wrinkles.
Answer: Glabella lines worse after botox
botox to both the glabella and the forehead will often result in the brows getting heavier and lower, as seen in your picture. it will feel heavy on the inner brows as you describe.
Both Botox® and Dysport® are great choices for 11 lines, and they last for as much as four months. Botox® has other uses, as well. It's used in other types of wrinkles, like your horizontal forehead lines and crow's feet at the edges of your eyes.
Botox effects typically last three to six months. For best results, Botox injectors recommend that patients repeat the session after three to four months.
Too much Botox in the forehead muscles can cause the eyebrows to droop, making the upper eyelids look very heavy and hooded. The face may look angry or sad all the time. Too much Botox around the eyes can dramatically affect facial expression. The face is simply frozen.
There's a common misconception that Botox makes you look older when it wears off. On the contrary, regular Botox treatments make you look younger even after the neurotoxin wears off.
For horizontal forehead lines, practitioners can inject up to 15–30 units of Botox. For “11” lines between the eyes (or glabellar lines), up to 40 units are indicated, with higher doses needed in male patients .
Answer: Botox for 11's
The corrugators run horizontally/diagonally from above the eyebrows toward the medial or inner part of the eyebrow area. To treat your lines effectively, injections should be done above the medial part of the eyebrow.
The use of high Botox dose usually results in loss of expressions. In some articles and textbooks, the recommended dose of botulinum toxin type A injections is 20-40 Units for the glabella region, 15-30 units for the forehead and 12-30 units for the crow's feet.
And what is the cause of these? Generally, when Botox was injected into areas where they shouldn't have been. As a leading dermatologist explains it: “When neurotoxins are placed improperly, this can result in facial asymmetry (one side not matching the other), drooping of the eyelids or eyebrow, and double vision.
Cause and Prevention of Forehead Heaviness After Botox Injection. The majority of upper-face creases are caused by creating facial expressions. Botox calms the muscles in the face that make a facial expression. When the muscles are relaxed, they can't contract vigorously, which can cause a drooping brow.
Botox injection into the crow's feet area can THEORETICALLY cause the bags under the eyes to look worse. This is due to the fact that the orbicularis muscle (the circular muscle around the eye) helps push the fat back, and weakening the muscle can interfere with that action.
The most common reason that Botox does not work is that not enough was given. Botox is not a one size fits all treatment and the same dosage does not work for everyone. Some individuals may need additional Botox to reach an effective level of muscle weakness. The Botox may also be old, overdiluted, or fake.
11 lines cannot be improved without botox. lasers, microneedling and filler can be used to help. I would suggest peels and skincare for pigmentation as I think that is why this is much more noticeable.
Once injected, Dysport disables the nerves around the injection site. This limits muscle movement, relaxing the area and smoothing out the skin. However, Dysport positions itself primarily to treat moderate to severe forehead lines and glabellar lines sometimes called frown lines or 11 lines.
Eyebrow drop is so annoying to patients but thankfully the effects of Botox are not permanent. The eyebrows can start rising even before the full effect of Botox on the forehead wears off. It might take 4-6 weeks, but the eyebrow will be back to it's normal position for sure.
Answer: Yes - You can use fillers for 11 lines
Yes, fillers can be used to reduce the resting 'eleven' lines that appear between the eyebrows. Fillers work by filling in the creases in the skin by re-supporting the lost tissue both within and below the skin.
Answer: Botox and Volbella for 11 Lines
Filler can be used in addition to Botox in this area. The filler for the 11 lines would be Volbella which will last around 6-9 months as long as you also have Botox injections quarterly.
'11' lines leave the face with a permanent stern look. Known as glabellar lines, these furrows will only get deeper as skin ages. See a board certified dermatologist or cosmetic surgeon, they will provide a complementary consultation, and let you know what filler (Botox) would work best for your '11's.
"Botox is a neurotoxin that paralyzes the muscle. After people use it, they start losing volume in their face, and that accelerates the appearance of aging."
There is no upper age limit for people who want to have Botox. In fact, many women enjoy the refreshed look they can get from Botox and complementary treatments when they are in their 60s or older.
“When an area of the face is frozen with absolutely no wrinkles, you can assume the person has had a date with a needle.” "When you look at a photo and see an area of the face that is extremely smooth and shiny," Rusher says, "that can be an indicator that the person may have had Botox."