Fortunately, there is a safe and non-surgical solution to this common aesthetic concern– Botox. When injected into the
Drooping corners of the mouth: Gravity isn't the only thing pulling your smile down, there's a muscle doing that! Treatment with 4-8 units of Botox® can lift the corners of the mouth to reveal a lifted smile.
A downturned mouth can be treated with muscle relaxing injections. The injections stop the DAO (depressor anguli oris) muscle pulling down the corners of the mouth. Treatment will cause the corners of the mouth to be slightly lifted, giving the mouth a more relaxed, happy, youthful and pleasing appearance.
DOWNTURNED MOUTH
Botox® can be placed into the muscle that acts to pull the corners of the mouth down. This is generally done in combination with filler for optimal results, but can be done alone. This not only helps to raise the corners of the mouth, but also works to make filler last longer in this area.
Botox injections can be utilised to relax muscles around the mouth, preventing them from contracting and dragging the lip corners downwards, whilst filler provides structural support to the lower face, helping to lift and rejuvenate the area.
A Downturned Mouth is often the result of excessive downward pull by muscles attached to the corners of your mouth. Loss of volume and structure in the soft tissues that support your mouth can also be the cause – without good support, the corners of the mouth simply fall down and create a sad look.
Botox is a nonsurgical procedure that's used to smooth wrinkles by temporarily relaxing muscles. It can be done around the mouth to reduce the appearance of smile lines. The effects of the procedure typically last about 3 to 6 months.
Place your index fingers on the corners of your mouth. Hold here, breathing deeply in and out through your nose. As well as helping to encourage your mouth into this upward position, this exercise gives a boost to the energy and circulation, making your lower face look fresher and brighter.
As we age gravity pulls on our lower face, leading to sagging jowls, decreased elasticity and hanging skin of the chin, neck and lower face. Injecting Botox® in this area can provide a subtle lift, helping you look younger and refreshed.
How many units of Botox do you need for jowls? Injecting 20 to 30 units of Botox per side, right where the muscle meets the jawline and contracts, can recontour the face as the jaw gradually narrows.
Botox injections can address the lip lines that appear at the corners of the mouth and relax muscles that pull your lips into a permafrown. The procedure takes about 15-20 minutes, and results can be noticeable in less than a week.
Two muscles can lift the corner of the mouth: the Musculus zygomaticus major and the Musculus levator anguli oris. In contrast, the lowering of the corner of the mouth is controlled by the muscle depressor anguli oris and the platysma.
If you're interested in a solution that doesn't involve surgery, lip fillers are a great option to consider. Fillers are a popular treatment for adding volume to the lips, but they can also be an effective way to improve the symmetry of uneven lips for a more balanced appearance, whether smiling or at rest.
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.
If you stop BOTOX treatments after many years of regular injections, the only effect will be that your wrinkles will return, albeit a bit more slowly than if you had not been using BOTOX. It's true: Even after you stop, you will still look younger than you would have if you had never been injected.
These are facial lines that show along the corners of the mouth and extend down to the chin and jaw area. They appear as sagging skin due to the loss of collagen and elasticity from aging. Botox can help improve the appearance of these lines by injecting at least 2 to 5 units for each side.
Sagging skin on the mouth corners is caused by a set of muscles in the jaw called depressor anguli oris (DAO). These muscles run from the corners of the lips down to the chin and can create a tired and aged appearance for most.
As we age, there is a natural reduction in collagen and elastin and this causes a loss of volume and fullness in our lips and the surrounding skin. This natural thinning and loss of the convex curve to the lips can increase or deepen the oral commissures, and for many people cause a downturned line.
Frowning lips usually are a result of age, due to a loss of volume in our cheeks and elasticity in our skin. This means that the skin around our mouth loses the support it once had, and the outside corners of our lips turn down resulting in frowning lips.
When injected into muscles, Botox blocks the release of acetylcholine and inhibits muscle contraction. Limiting this movement not only relaxes facial wrinkles and lines, but it can also lift the corners of the mouth.
Corner of Lip Lift (anguloplasty) procedure lasts about 90 minutes in office (easy for you). Before Corner Lift Procedure: Downturned corners of lips create frown and sad appearance.
Botulinum Toxin can be used around the mouth to diminish wrinkling and make that area look more youthful. Most people come in because their mouth and perioral area looks aged due to thinning lips and/or for women the appearance of vertical radial lines around the mouth.
After the age of 35, it may be too late to benefit from the preventive capacity of Botox®, especially if you have a very expressive face or fair skin, are genetically predisposed, or have unhealthy lifestyle habits such as using tan beds, overexposing yourself in the sun, or smoking.