Best places for Botox
Botox is made for the expression wrinkles on your face (they come from smiling, frowning, etc.). A common rule of thumb is that Botox is used more so from the eyes up and fillers from the cheeks down, although there are exceptions.
Between the eyebrows and the “crows feet” are the most common areas for treatment and good places to start. Using Botox elsewhere in the lower cheeks doesn’t really reduce wrinkles because they are generally deeper, stable wrinkles.
Fillers are better suited for these areas. Consult with your doctor about which wrinkles are the most bothersome to you and a good injector will know how and where to put the right amount to decrease but not freeze these target places first.
Areas Of The Face Botox Is Injected
Just a few treated sites can make a huge difference! (David J. Myers, MD, Salt Lake City Dermatologic Surgeon)
Wrinkles all over face
Botox is usually placed in the frown area around the eyes. It stops your facial muscles from contracting, but if you have areas that have wrinkles like your cheeks or lower face, we recommend that you place tiny amounts of fillers to support the tissue underneath the wrinkle as well as lift the sagging skin with Voluma.
Voluma is a lifts and supports the skin. For lower face you can use juvederm ultra or plus to help with volume and support. (Cheryl Perlis, MD, FACOG, Highland Park Physician)
What Areas Can Botox Be Injected
The most common places for Botox treatment are in the upper face. The most common area is between the eyebrows (called the glabella) which improves the 11’s or frown lines. Other common treatments include the horizontal forehead lines and the crow’s feet lines that radiate from the sides of the eyes.
Areas Of The Face Where Botox Can Be Used
I also like to place Botox under the eyes to help reduce bunching of skin as well as to open up the eye and make it appear rounder. Botox injections done at the lateral eyebrow can help give a subtle eyebrow lift.
In addition, I often inject Botox at the sides of the nose to help with “bunny lines.” Another area that I like to treat is around the mouth to help with vertical lip lines. I also like to inject the DAO muscle close to the jawline to help raise the corners of the mouth.
Sometimes I will inject the platysma muscle in the neck to reduce visible vertical bands. Botox can also be injected into the armpits to virtually eliminate underarm sweating with results that typically last for six months.
BOTOX Used In Many Areas Of Face
Treatment of excess sweating requires more Botox units but I charge less per unit for this type of treatment. (Richard Ort, MD, Lone Tree Dermatologic Surgeon)
What Areas of my Face Can I Get Botox Injected?
Cosmetic Botox in the face has many potential indications.
The most common places include: the forehead for horizontal wrinkles, the eyebrows to try and elevate the outer eyebrow, the area between the eyes for the 1,11,111s (frown lines), Crow’s feet along the outer eye, along the nose for “bunny lines,” the upper lip for vertical wrinkles, and the chin region to try to elevate the corners of the mouth.
There are others, but find a board certified plastic surgeon that knows facial anatomy, and they will be able to guide you the best in what you should consider. (Nelson Castillo, MD, Atlanta Plastic Surgeon)
Botox Has Many Applications In The Face
Botox locations
Botox is approved for use by the FDA in limited places of the face. The glabella ( the furrow lines between your brows) is the most common place that Botox is used. There are other areas of the face that Botox is helpful in treating including horizontal forehead lines and crows feet wrinkles.
Botox is rarely of use in the lower face below the level of the eyes. There are many other adjunctive treatments for wrinkling in other places. Excellent skin care and addressing photoaging is important is achieving more youthful looking skin. (Rachel Streu, MD, FACS, Portland Plastic Surgeon)
Where is Botox used
Botox has become the most common cosmetic procedure due to its ease of use and effectiveness. However, Botox is not able to remove every wrinkle on the face. Botox works by temporarily relaxing specific muscles of the face responsible for creating dynamic creases.
Botox Works Well For Forehead Lines, Crow’s Feet, Frown Lines
These are the wrinkles that occur with facial expression, such as the crow’s feet, frown lines, and transverse forehead creases. It can also be used on the upper lip and neck bands. Botox is not used on the fine, diffuse creases of our skin, which are best treated with lasers or skin care.
Botox is also not useful for the deeper crease of the lower face, which are best treated with fillers. Botox should be injected by a skilled injector for the best results. If used appropriately and judiciously, Botox can give a natural but improved look.
A trip to your plastic surgeon’s office should help you with this. with your botox. (Jeffrey Rockmore, MD, Albany Plastic Surgeon)
Best places of the face for botox use
Dermatologists Can Also Inject Tiny Drops Of Botox Along The Upper Lip Border
Best places for botox administration include:
- Glabella – get rid of those “11” lines between the eyes
- Forehead – helps flatten those forehead wrinkles
- Outer eyebrow – This will paralyze the orbicularis muscle under the outer eyebrow along the frontalis muscle to gently elevate the outer eyebrow
- Smile lines or crow’s feet – Botox here will help to rid the smile lines or at least improve them.
- Bunny lines at the top of the nose – Botox works well here.
Other places that work well but require a more experienced injector:
- Masseter hypertrophy
- Depressor Oris Anguli muscles – paralyzing these will help improve a downward pulled outer mouth
- Mentalis muscle – helps with persistent mentalist strain or wrinkles of the chinPlatysma bands – helps flatten the straining cords of the neck
That covers almost 99% of the common locations for botox use in the face.(Bryson G. Richards, MD, Las Vegas Plastic Surgeon)
What areas of the face can be treated with botox
The general rule is that the lines around your eyes and above are the best areas for botox. Botox treats wrinkles caused by muscle movement in the upper part of the face. While lines on the lower face are also caused by muscle movement these muscles when weakened with botox lead to a stroke like appearance.
The exception are the pucker muscles causing vertical lip lines and the corner of mouth depressors. Light doses of botox can be used here but it is associated with a higher incidence of “too much” weakness.
In general fillers are better treatments for the mid and lower parts of the face. (Katrinka L. Heher, MD, Boston Oculoplastic Surgeon)
Botox places on the face
There are numerous places of the face where you can use Botox, although the classic locations include glabellar lines (between your brows), forehead lines and crow’s feet. In some people you can use Botox for upper lip (perioral) lines, neck lines, bunny lines, marionette lines, chin dimple, gummy smile.
However, if you truly have wrinkles across your entire face, there might be better treatment alternatives including full-face fractional laser resurfacing, or combination therapies with injectable fillers. You can also use a variety of tightening devices including Ulthera so having a proper consultation with a board-certified dermatologist will ensure that you will truly get the right procedure to address your concerns. (Andrei Metelitsa, MD, FRCPC, FAAD, Calgary Dermatologic Surgeon)
Botox treatment places
Botox is used to relax certain muscles of facial expression that over time if not treated will become wrinkles at rest. Prevention of these wrinkles is definitely most advantageous and Botox is great at it.
The FDA Approved areas for Botox Cosmetic are the 11’s, and Crow’s feet, however, it has long been used in many other places including, the forehead, perioral lip lines, the DAO (to relax a muscle that pulls the corners of the mouth down), the chin (to treat the crumpled skin look), the masseter (to both soften and contour the jaw as well as to treat clenching teeth and TMJ), the platysmal bands in the neck ,and in the eyebrow to give a little non-surgical brow lift.
As you have “wrinkles pretty much across [your] entire face”, you may need more than Botox to get an optimal correction. The good news is there has never been a better time with more options for correcting the “entire face”! Fillers such as Juvederm, and Voluma can help tremendously with restoring your youthful look.
Laser treatments and good skin care may also be recommended, so do not be surprised if during your consultation a plan for employing all of these cosmetic tools is recommended. (Quenby Erickson, DO, FAAD, FACMS, Chicago Dermatologic Surgeon)
Although Botox can be injected in many places of the face, it’s most commonly used to reduce wrinkles in the forehead, crows feet, and lines in-between the eyebrows. It has proven to have great results in these areas, usually lasting for 3-4 months.
I would recommend consulting with a board certified physician who can assess you and explain all of your options. There may be other products or non-invasive procedures besides Botox that you would be a good candidate for.
It’s important to find a doctor who will spend time creating a customized treatment plan for you and take your facial rejuvenation goals into consideration. Often times, more than one product is needed to provide patients with the results that they are looking for. (Babak Azizzadeh, MD, Beverly Hills Facial Plastic Surgeon)