As with any type of cosmetic procedure, you should only trust your face and your body to a board-certified dermatologist, plastic surgeon or facial plastic surgeon with extensive knowledge and experience using injectables.
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Office Hours. Monday AM - PM. Tuesday AM - PM. Wednesday AM - PM. Thursday AM - PM. Friday AM - PM. The same is true of fillers--well, let me specify, the same is true of hyaluronic acid fillers. The fillers "fill" your hollows and lines while they are present, and they dissolve slowly over time months, depending on which filler was used , and you end up where you were before.
Of course, as we age, we lose our own volume fat, muscle, and bone in our faces , so more filler will be needed to get the same results you had when you were much younger. But this is due to normal aging, not due to any filler use. So, the short answer to the original question is that you'll just look like an older version of yourself, with the wrinkles and hollows you would have had if you had never used Botox or fillers.
About Us Dr. Thursday, March 8 th Ask a Question Request a Consultation. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. Ever since the FDA approval of Botox in the s, people everywhere have been obsessed with the injectable to cheat the aging process—aesthetically, at least. Botox is a neurotoxin that temporarily "prevents the communication between your nerves and your muscle," explains dermatologist Mara Weinstein, MD.
In other words, Botox paralyzes the injected muscle, usually for a period of three to six months. She adds that regular treatments with the neurotoxin have been shown to enhance mood and fight depression.
For anti-aging purposes specifically, doctors use Botox to treat two types of wrinkles : static and dynamic. Static lines are the deep wrinkles that are etched into people's faces after several decades of frowning, smiling, and raising their eyebrows, while dynamic wrinkles are only visible as you're making a facial expression.
Here's the thing: Because the drug has only been around for 30 years, there's not much to glean when it comes to the long-term effects of Botox. To find answers, we consulted top dermatologists. Here are eight things you should know about Botox injections and how they impact your body. After using Botox continuously for years, your muscles will become trained not to make wrinkle-forming expressions as aggressively. Weinstein says, "Once you are used to the feeling of having less movement in the forehead after neurotoxin, you will be more aware of making the movement when the toxin wears off.
Becoming more consciously aware of your expressions will help you avoid excess frowning, squinting, and eyebrow-raising moving forward. If you didn't move your legs for 20 years, eventually those muscles would shrink and become quite weak.
The same thing can happen to the muscles in your face: "If used regularly, over a prolonged period, without interruption, eventually the muscle will atrophy from lack of use," says the legendary dermatological surgeon Patricia Wexler, MD. That's not to say your entire face will atrophy. Wexler says that some patients complain of a visible thinning of the skin after many years of Botox use. This might mean exposure of subdermal veins between areas of normal thickness. This isn't common, but Wexler says that patients who start Botox "too early," like in their early 20s, can be at risk for this side effect.
In these cases, "The skin of the forehead [can] get prematurely thinner, and the muscles weaker," she says. Sometimes, after many years of use, this can even result in the look of heavier brows and eyelids, "making the toxin more difficult to continue using. Again, not typical, but Wexler says that with the skin thinning, some patients notice "a visible waviness of the skin overlying the muscles treated," as well as discoloration.
Luckily, this side effect is preventable: "[It] can be avoided by changing the pattern of injection to give smaller amounts of toxin in a more uniform distribution to get an identical effect without this problem, or stopping the toxin for an extended period," Wexler says.
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