If too much Botox is injected into the undereye area, it could make it difficult for you to engage in healthy eye functions, like blinking and closing your eyes.
A qualified, experienced injector should never inject the area near the orbital bone right above the pupil. If Botox is injected here, it can drift down toward the upper eyelid and cause an eyelid droop. This can last from weeks to even months.
A commonly asked question about Botox is whether it can be effectively used near the eyes. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Botox for cosmetic purposes around the crow's feet area (sides of the eyes) and frown line area (in between the eyes – also known as glabellar lines).
Injections near the eyes pose the most risk, and these areas are commonly used to combat crow's feet and brow lines. After the Botox is injected, the eyes can become very irritated and dry, and can go quite bloodshot and red. This irritation can then increase into blurred vision and the inability to see correctly.
Answer: No permanent damage
Since Botox injections produce temporary results, it won't cause permanent damage to eye muscles either.
In most cases, droopy eyelid occurs between one and three weeks after treatment, and patients typically experience this adverse effect for just a few weeks. According to Dr. Holman, “It's important to remember that, like Botox treatments, a drooping eyelid is usually temporary. The effect will wear off after a while.
Occasionally, some of the Botox seeps into the upper eyelid and paralyzes the levator palpebrae — the muscle that holds the upper eyelid up. If this muscle is paralyzed, the upper eyelid will droop.
Answer: There's no problem. botox can be injected very close to the eye...the squish you heard/saw was the fluid the botox was dissolved in moving into the surrounding skin...
Botox Injection to the Central Eyelid and Brow Areas Is a Low-Risk Procedure. Some practitioners avoid Botox injections rather than risk blepharoptosis or diplopia. However, data show that injections in the central eyelid and brow areas are a safe option for chemodenervation, Cleveland Clinic researchers report.
Using anti-wrinkle injections in the depressor of the brow (orbicularis muscle) can be a very effective way to avoid possible brow heaviness.
Eyebrow lift Botox injection sites are located between the eyebrows in the procerus and at the ends of the eyebrows in the orbicularis oculi. The reason that these are the Botox sites for eyebrow lifts is because they are the muscles that pull the eyebrows down.
Physicians and nurses can avoid the Spock look by balancing the forces between the elevators and the depressors. This is accomplished by placing a small amount of Botox in the outer forehead.
Sometimes Botox can help with hooded eyes, but not always. If you have significant sagging and drooping upper lid skin that affects the vision, you need something else. The bottom line is no injectable will tighten drooping and sagging skin permanently. The only option in this situation is upper eyelid surgery.
If the eyes look hooded because of pronounced brow droop or a considerable amount of excess eyelid skin, Botox is decidedly ineffective. No injectable product can reduce or tighten the skin — the only solution is to have it surgically excised through upper eyelid surgery.
This occurs as a result of migration of the toxin into the muscle that raises the eyelid (levator palpebrae superioris muscle – pink in the picture). A slight miscalculation, like making the injection too low in the forehead muscle, can cause eyelid drooping after Botox.
Frown lines (Botox between eyebrows)
This is a very effective area on which to use BOTOX®. An experienced practitioner can subtly smooth these frown lines, resulting in a rejuvenated and more relaxed appearance.
The most common negative reaction to injections to your face is a droopy eyelid, also called ptosis or blepharoptosis. Most people don't have this problem. Around 5% of people who get Botox will have problems with eyelid droop. This number falls to less than 1% if a skilled doctor does the injection.
This is a side effect of Botox treatments, which can be caused by having an injection done too close to your eyebrows, which pushes them down and in turn, makes your eyelids droopy and puffy.
Botox is not known to cause blindness, and it is a very rare complication of some fillers.
The Frontalis is the muscle in your forehead which controls the raising of your eyebrows. After 2 weeks, if you still feel heaviness, try gentle eyebrow raising exercises and blinking your eyelids rapidly for 30 seconds. Do this 4 times daily for 2-4 days as it may help resolve the heaviness.
Botox injections of the forehead typically involves the frontalis muscle which is responsible for raising the eyebrows. An eyebrow droop can also occur as a result of over-relaxation of the frontalis muscle, while trying to erase horizontal forehead lines and wrinkles.
Botox paralyzes the frontalis, preventing it from moving, and thus preventing those horizontal wrinkles. But the frontalis muscle is responsible for raising the eyebrows. So it makes sense that paralyzing this muscles gives you heavy brows.
When Botox is applied to problem areas around the eyebrows, the muscles relax and the skin on top of them becomes smoother. The muscles around the eyebrows are pulled upwards, elevating the eyebrows and making a patient's eyes appear more open.
'Spocking' usually occurs 1-2 weeks after anti-wrinkle treatments. It is described as funny-looking eyebrows that are too high towards the outer end, especially when you raise your brows. Often, they are overarched and make it look like something is not quite right.
Typically, a “Spock Brow” is due to overtreating depressors and/or undertreating elevators in the outer half of the forehead. It can be corrected by placing a small amount of Botox into the elevators in the outer forehead.