Nasolabial lines need five to 10 units.
BOTOX Units Per Treatment Area
Frown or Glabellar Lines (10-25 units) Crow's Feet (5-15 per side) Bunny or Nasals Lines (5-10 units) Smile Lift or Corners of the Mouth (3-6 units)
Botox injections can reduce the appearance of nasolabial folds for a few months. Dermal fillers: Dermal filler is an injection of a substance to fill creases in your skin. The substance plumps the area, restoring volume and fullness. The effects can last six months to a year.
You can treat a nasolabial fold with an injection in the pyriform fossa at the ala base to project it forward and reduce a shadow, but you cannot do that same injection if the nasolabial fold runs all the way down to the oral commissures.
Glabellar lines (between the eyes): 10-25 units. Jaw area (masseter): 15-50 units per side. Lines around the nose: 5-10 units. Neck (platysmal) bands: 25-50 units.
An average Botox procedure uses about 50 units at a time, with the maximum safe amount being 100 units. Typically, you can expect more Botox units if you want to target more dynamic wrinkles like frown lines, forehead lines, or smile lines.
Your Guide to Botox Injections
According to Allergan's guidelines, the following units should be given: Crow's Feet – 10 to 12 Botox Units per eye (2 eyes would mean 20 to 24 units) Frown Lines – 20 Botox Units. Forehead lines – 20 Botox Units.
Nasolabial fold: Angular branch of facial artery/lateral nasal artery. In the lower part of nasolabial fold it is important to stay superficial while injecting and in upper 1/3 of the fold deep or periosteal injections are safest.
Restylane (Medicis) and Juvederm (Allergan) are sterilized gel made from hyaluronic acid (HA) which are made in a laboratory. They have the best safety profile of all the fillers currently on the market and are FDA-approved for use in the nasolabial fold.
Botox works by relaxing the muscles around the mouth, but it cannot soften the deep folds in the nasolabial area. In this case, a volume-adding injectable like dermal fillers is often the better choice because it can fill the deep wrinkles and smoothen the skin.
Thankfully, treatments like Botox exist to turn back the clock and improve the appearance of nasolabial folds. So can Botox help ease these folds back into their place? Yes, it can. By combining it with a filler, an expert doctor can soften the muscles at the corners of the mouth and fill in the folds.
Nasolabial folds
If it's something that bothers you, dermal filler can be used to treat the area, and, typically, a practitioner will use anywhere from 0.5ml to 2ml filler per side, depending on the individual and how deep the lines are.
Exercises for nasolabial folds include: Puckering the lips in an upward motion, as if kissing the ceiling. Hold for 15 seconds and repeat 4–5 times. Puckering the lips into a pouting motion, then pulling the corners of the mouth out.
On the forehead, there are two different areas. Right above the eyebrows and in between the eyes is called the frown lines. According to the recommendations, this requires 20 units. And finally, for the lines further up the forehead, which we just refer to as forehead lines, it takes 20 units of Botox.
How Many Units of Botox for Smokers Lines? Generally, around 8-20 units of Botox are used to address smoker lines. Around 1-3 units of Botox is used per injection spot, which totals to generally around 15 units.
“Dermal fillers can also be injected into the nasolabial lines to soften them directly,” Dr Ward confirms. “This involves a series of tiny injections of hyaluronic acid into the skin to support, lift and improve the nasolabial line.”
Some dermal fillers have been studied to last close to two years. The three fillers that tend to last the longest are Restylane Lyft, Restylane Defyne, Restylane Refyne, Juvederm, Voluma, Radiesse, and Sculptra. Restylane Defyne is built for balance and used in the nasal labial folds and marionette lines.
Reduce Smile Lines Around Mouth with Dermal Filler
The best treatment to reduce these lines is dermal filler. These lines are adjacent further outward on the face than the nasolabial folds, the lines from the nose down to the corners of the mouth. These nasolabial folds should also be treated with dermal filler.
Most nasolabial folds will typically require two syringes to fully correct. One syringe of Juvederm is sometimes sufficient for mild nasolabial folds. For lip augmentation, one syringe will sculpt and enhance the lips.
On the day of the procedure, your medical provider injects 3 to 6 units of Botox in each corner of your lower lip. The targeted muscle is called Depressor Anguli Oris, and it's responsible for pulling the corners of your mouth downward.
A circular muscle around the eye called orbicularis oculi, which enables the eyes to shut tight, can cause laugh lines when the muscle is overactive. The treatment provider will inject Botox in this muscle in a precise and controlled manner. The patient may need a few small injections on each side of the face.
25 Units Of Botox On Average
On average 25 units of Botox will give your skin by your glabellar a full correction and will remove the 11 lines. The '11 lines' are the glabellar lines in between your eyes and eyebrows.