The use of high Botox dose usually results in loss of expressions. In some articles and textbooks, the recommended dose of botulinum toxin type A injections is 20-40 Units for the glabella region, 15-30 units for the forehead and 12-30 units for the crow's feet.
Answer: Glabella lines worse after botox
botox to both the glabella and the forehead will often result in the brows getting heavier and lower, as seen in your picture. it will feel heavy on the inner brows as you describe.
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.
And what is the cause of these? Generally, when Botox was injected into areas where they shouldn't have been. As a leading dermatologist explains it: “When neurotoxins are placed improperly, this can result in facial asymmetry (one side not matching the other), drooping of the eyelids or eyebrow, and double vision.
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.
Answer: Botox treatment areas
It is your choice to either treat just the glabellar lines or address the forehead at the same time. If you don't see noticeable horizontal lines on the forehead when you raise your eyebrows, you do not have to treat both areas.
The use of Botox to relax glabellar lines is very common and quite safe, and people young and old are now using this injectable treatment to avoid or reverse the “frown face” look.
Botox injections in the glabella area will lift the medial part of your brow. By injecting a small amount of botox on the outer aspect of the eye brow will result in a lateral lift as well. The lift is only a few millimeters however it does produce a nice refreshed appearance.
“The average duration for Botox for glabella [the lines between the brows], forehead, and lateral crows' feet is approximately three to four months,” says Dr. Williams. And there are certain factors that may make Botox fade faster.
Signs of a Bad Botox Injection
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.
The result will last 3 to 4 months. Unfortunately, massaging will not effect or speed up this process.
The effects of Botox are temporary and will gradually wear off within 4 months. If you choose not to have further Botox treatments your muscles will eventually return to normal activity and your facial lines will revert to their pre treatment state. Unfortunately, there is no way to make the Botox wear off any faster.
Excessive Botox can cause the forehead to relax too much, resulting in that heavy feeling. It can feel like an elephant is sitting on the eyebrow. And once the heavy brow droop, so does the upper eyelid.
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.
About 2 percent of people who get a Botox injection may experience ptosis, especially when an untrained individual administers the injection. This probability declines to 1 percent when a skilled healthcare professional does the procedure.
The most common reason that Botox does not work is that not enough was given. Botox is not a one size fits all treatment and the same dosage does not work for everyone. Some individuals may need additional Botox to reach an effective level of muscle weakness. The Botox may also be old, overdiluted, or fake.
Both Botox® and Dysport® are great choices for 11 lines, and they last for as much as four months. Botox® has other uses, as well. It's used in other types of wrinkles, like your horizontal forehead lines and crow's feet at the edges of your eyes.
So, what works best? Fillers typically last longer than BOTOX in most cases, but a filler may or may not give you the long-lasting results you would want for forehead lines. The lines can be smoothed with fillers, but in most cases, BOTOX is a superior choice for forehead lines.
Heavy brows and the feeling of drooping.
This feeling and look comes from treatment of the forehead muscles called the frontalis. These muscles move the brows up and in certain cases after Botox treatment, the relaxed muscle then makes the brows drop.
How to Fix Spock Brows. To fix Spock eyebrows, you need to wait for the neuromodulator to reach its full effect—which is around 10 to 14 days after the injection—and inject a few units of Botox laterally into the frontalis muscle above each brow. This will stop the muscle from being overly active.
The spock brow typically occurs from neuromodulator use from products such as Botox, Dysport, Xeomin and Jeuveau. A spock brow results when the central forehead is weakened and the outer sides of the forehead are active, causing the central brow to drop and the outer brow to lift too high in comparison.
A question we're often asked is can you treat the frontalis muscle on its own. Without the others areas which are the glabella and the obicularis oculi. Generally we advise against this because of the slightly heavy brow caused. Although, you can just treat the glabella and the crows feet area by themselves.
On average, 15-20 units of Botox are recommended for in between eyebrows.