These products temporarily block signals from nerves to muscles. The injected muscles can't contract or have the same influence on your facial features. Targeting your upper face with BOTOX® injections will elevate your brows and give you the illusion of bigger eyes.
The most common negative reaction to injections to your face is a droopy eyelid, also called ptosis or blepharoptosis. Most people don't have this problem. Around 5% of people who get Botox will have problems with eyelid droop. This number falls to less than 1% if a skilled doctor does the injection.
Spread of Botox can cause changes in vision. This can include double vision, blurred vision, dry eyes, excessive tearing and drooping of the eyelid. If experiencing these symptoms, consult your doctor.
If the Botox is placed too low or if it migrates down, the Botox can affect the lower part of the muscle and cause a droopy eyebrow. Sometimes when your eyebrow goes down, it can make your upper eyelid heavy too, making it look like droopy eyelids.
Specifically, injections on the forehead or between the eyes may spread into the eyebrows and cause the brow to lower, causing a droopy eyelid. In most cases, droopy eyelid occurs between one and three weeks after treatment, and patients typically experience this adverse effect for just a few weeks.
Most of us are familiar with the benefits of BOTOX for smoothing forehead lines and wrinkles, but you may be surprised to learn that BOTOX can also help to lift drooping brows and correct hooded eyes in some patients.
These products temporarily block signals from nerves to muscles. The injected muscles can't contract or have the same influence on your facial features. Targeting your upper face with BOTOX® injections will elevate your brows and give you the illusion of bigger eyes.
It is because your cheek muscles are an active participant in helping you smile. So if Botox gets injected too low on the upper part of the cheek, the Botox will weaken the muscles that help lift your mouth muscles and stop you from having a full smile.
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.
“If you do too much Botox on your forehead for many, many years, the muscles will get weaker and flatter,” cautions Wexler, adding that the skin can also appear thinner and looser. Moreover, as your muscles become weaker, they can start to recruit surrounding muscles when you make facial expressions.
Possible side effects and unwanted results include: Pain, swelling or bruising at the injection site. Headache or flu-like symptoms. Droopy eyelids or crooked eyebrows.
The Botox Treatment for Hooded Eyelids
Treating hooded eyelids with Botox is a relatively simple process. The treatment involves injecting Botox into your lower forehead and the outer ends of your eyebrows. When injected, it will paralyze the muscle by effectively preventing nerve receptors that prompt muscle movement.
This is because Botox blocks nerve signals from reaching the muscles around the eyes, causing them to relax and flatten. When the muscles relax and flatten, the skin overlying the muscles may also flatten, drawing the eyes inwards and making them appear smaller.
Some patients may realize they don't like the look of Botox after receiving an injection. There is no way to reverse Botox—but rest assured that the injections are temporary and will fade after 3-4 months.
There are two signs you've had a bad Botox injection: Unusual results such as facial asymmetry (one side doesn't match the other), overarching eyebrows, a drooping eyelid, or not being able to move the forehead at all.
However, brow ptosis can result when too many units of Botox are injected or when the injection site is too low on the forehead. Too high a dose or incorrect placement can over-relax the frontalis muscle, causing the eyebrow to lower, or droop.
Nausea. Redness. Temporary facial weakness or drooping. In rare instances, the botulinum toxin may spread beyond the treatment area, causing botulism-like signs and symptoms such as breathing problems, trouble swallowing, muscle weakness and slurred speech.
It is true that Botox and Dysport can contribute to the development of eye bags. Certain patients who are more susceptible to fluid accumulation may experience these issues. This includes individuals with sinusitis, allergies, or oculi muscle disorder.
Eye drops that tighten the eye muscles and elevate the eyelid, such as apraclonidine and brimonidine. Massaging the area around the eyes to stimulate the eye muscles. Electrical stimulus treatments to activate the eye muscles.
If you are experiencing eyebrow unevenness this can also be corrected, and you do not have to wait for the Botox injections to wear off. Eyebrow unevenness can be corrected by injecting a little more neurotoxin into the side that is lower. This will eventually correct the asymmetry.
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.
Natural-looking results: Botox injections can slightly lift the eyelid skin and make the eyes look more alert as naturally as possible. Quick results: It only takes a few days for Botox injections to kick in, so you'll quickly see wider more alert eyes.
Where to inject Botox for hooded eyes. The Botox treatment for hooded eyes is a brow lift, so the injection sites will be located within the procerus and the orbicularis oculi muscles. This is because they are depressor muscles and pull the eyebrow down.
Again, rather than submit to invasive surgery with a long recovery time, Botox for sagging eyelids performed by a board certified cosmetic dermatologist can easily help rectify the issue. An in-office procedure, the Botox injections work to relax that muscle and thereby tighten up the sagging skin of the eyelid.