Botox Brow Lifts | Walnut Creek Dermatology

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2. What is Botox: • Botox is a trade name for a medicine made from a highly toxic bacterium - botulinum toxin, a neurotoxic protein produced by Clostridium botulinum. Though that may sound scary initially, Botox is a drug doctors have been using safely for decades. • Botulinum toxin “type A” (Botox) is manufactured and marketed by different pharmaceutical companies under various trade names – Botox Cosmetic, Jeuveau, Xeomin, Daxxify, and Dysport. Trade names may vary, but they all share the same active ingredient, botulinum toxin, and essentially all perform the same function.

3. What Is a Botox Brow Lift? • A Botox brow lift is a non-invasive, temporary, simple alternative to more dramatic surgical brow lifts. The procedure can help minimally lift the brow while softening the forehead, smoothing glabella lines and wrinkles, and promoting a more youthful appearance.

4. How do Botox Brow Lifts Work? • Botox injections create similar results as a Surgical Brow Lift. Botox paralyzes the muscles that pull the brow downwards with muscle contraction. The treatment allows the forehead to relax, elevating the brow and producing a more youthful, rested appearance.

5. Botox Brow Lift Benefits vs. Surgical Brow Lifts • Botox is the preferred method for subtle, non-radical improvement. It is a far less invasive, non-permanent, quick recovery, affordable alternative to surgery. • Botox is a simple, painless, in-and-out, 20-minute treatment with no downtime, and if you are not happy with the results, Botox will wear off in 3-6 months. • A Surgical Browlift is a serious medical procedure. There will be several weeks of recovery time, pain, and risks involved, and you’ll be stuck with the results, whether you like them or not, for the next decade or more.

6. How Much Can a Botox Brow Lift The Eyebrows? • Botox lifts are far more subtle than surgical procedures. A Surgical Brow Lift is an extensive forehead procedure that is invasive and radical. • Botox is a non-invasive, temporary, simple procedure producing less dramatic subtle improvements with one to three millimeters of lift.

7. Botox Brow Lift Benefits

8. Will a Brow Lift Procedure Make You Look Younger? • Yes, it can. Brow Lifts are one of the most common treatments in the cosmetic enhancement industry. No doubt, it is a Hollywood staple. Treatment can leave you with fewer wrinkles, a smoother, lifted brow line, and a more youthful, refreshed appearance.

9. What’s the Downside of a Botox Brow Lift? • The downside to the treatment is that you will need repeated maintenance treatments to keep your results. It is necessary to repeat injections to maintain your appearance long-term. • More than 6 million people a year receive Botox treatments, and the incidence of reported side effects is minimal. However, side effects with the medicine are possible.

10. What Should You Expect During a Brow Lift Procedure • Botox treatments involve small, generally pain-free injections into specific muscles around your brows and forehead. Treatment is an in-and-out quick office visit that lasts up to 20 minutes.

11. What should I expect after a Brow Lift procedure?

12. Are There Any Risks with Botox Brow Lifts? When side-effects occur with Botox, they vary depending on the treatment, where injected, how much medicine, the condition treated, patient’s medical history, medications, and other variables. 1. Injection site reactions are the most common side effects. Localized pain, bruising, and skin color changes (redness) around the injection site can happen. These symptoms show up shortly after treatments and should go away quickly. 2. Headaches are another of the most encountered side effects. They are usually not severe and tend to disappear a few days post-treatment.

13. Botox Forehead treatments present their own unique set of side effects. Especially if the medicine leaks and migrates to the eye or nearby muscle groups.Please see our full article about Botox at: walnutcreekderm.com

14. Risks with Botox Brow Lifts? • Drooping Eyelid —affects up to 20% of people who receive injections in the forehead. Symptom onset 1- 3 weeks following treatment, almost always temporary, wearing off in a few weeks. • Drooping Eyebrow affects only one eye and is nearly always temporary, resolving in four weeks or less. • Spreading of Botox – Botulinum toxin spreads beyond the primary injection site and may cause other problems.

15. Who Should Not Get Botox? You should not take Botox if you are pregnant, breastfeeding, or if you suffer from any of the following conditions: • Weak facial muscles • You are currently ill • Neuromuscular disease • Drooping eyelids (ptosis) • Certain Neurological disorders • Trouble with breathing or swallowing • You are taking immunosuppressant drugs

16. How Quickly Will You See Results? • 5 - 10 days are standard for initial effects to kick in and begin fully working. Others will see results sooner. However, if you still aren’t seeing the results you expected after two weeks, call your provider for a consultation.

17. How Long Does a Botox Brow Lift Last? • The Botox Brow lift procedure results are not permanent. They are effective for three to four months, most commonly. Some people may enjoy as much as six months of longevity from their treatments, but it is rare. After this period, you will need maintenance injections as the medicine wears off to maintain your results.

18. Are you a Good Candidate for a Botox Brow Lift? • If years of smiling, frowning, squinting, laughing, and crying are starting to appear on your complexion permanently, now might be the right time to consider Botox. Many younger clients are thinking of Botox treatment the same way many may think of sunscreen as a logical preventative treatment for future aging. By addressing problems now by treating muscle contractions that lead to developing deep lines, creases, and wrinkles later, they are avoiding more significant problems in the future.

19. Are you a Good Candidate for a Botox Brow Lift? • If you suffer from mild, moderate, or even severe frown lines between the eyebrows, sagging skin around the eyes from a falling brow, forehead creases, etc. In that case, you may be a good candidate for a Botox Brow Lift.

20. Are you a Good Candidate for a Brow Lift? • Even clients with advanced lines, wrinkles, and deep creases shouldn’t rule out Botox as a therapy. • Botox is not a filler (It does not “fill in” problem areas) but Botox does stop the muscle contractions that cause wrinkles, lines, and creases to appear. Botox with dermal fillers can be just the right combination to fill problem areas, keep them from reappearing under muscle contraction, and arrest future depth and development.

21. Is a Botox Brow Lift Right for You? • Only you can decide if a Botox Brow Lift suits you. The procedure is quick, easy, and, for the most part, painless. It is a non-invasive procedure. There is no downtime for recovery. And it is far more economical in time and money than Plastic Surgery. If you are unhappy with the results, let the effects wear off and move on. With Botox, you won’t be stuck with the look for the next decade. • Botox is most popular with Men and Women ages 30 to 50, but that doesn’t rule out older clients with pre-existing, even advanced aging, not does it exclude 20–30-year-olds looking to protect and preserve their healthy glow.

22. Is a Botox Brow Lift Right for You? • You should consider treatment whenever you become unhappy with your current appearance, or as some do, for preventative care. Indeed, even those patients in advanced years who, for health reasons, would not be suitable candidates for plastic surgery can get Botox treatment safely and reap the benefits. • Call us today at 925-391-9439. Our friendly staff will happily book your consultation. • Visit us at https://walnutcreekderm.com to learn more.