Facial Injections: Info, Prices, Photos, Reviews, Q&A

Botox Brow lift-it works!

Botox is a treatment that stops or reduces muscle movement. The key to achieving a “lift” with botox is to preferentially treat the muscles that pull the brow down, which allows the muscles that lift the brow to work unimpeded.

It may sound complicated, but a skilled Facial Plastic surgeon with experience in performing advanced injection techniques, performs this type of lift every day.

Placing small amounts of Botox under the tail of the brows and around the eyes can also achieve a lift in the outside region of the eyes, almost like you’ve undergone a brow lift.

The lift is a few millimeters, which doesn’t sound like a lot, but in the right patient, can achieve results similar to surgery and with obviously much less discomfort and downtime! (Anita Sethna, MD, Atlanta Facial Plastic Surgeon)

Botox Brow Lift Injection Sites

Botox brow lift, non surgical brow lift

botox can weaken the muscle around the eye which lets the eyebrow lift up. the glabella muscles in the middle normally pull the brow down and in. botox will let this area go up and out. (Jed H. Horowitz, MD, FACS, Orange County Plastic Surgeon)

Non surgical browlift

One can achieve the look of a surgical brow lift, non-surgically with Botox. Botox is a purified protein that blocks a chemical reaction in the muscle that prevents the muscle from contracting. It causes a paralysis in the muscle, it will not contract.

When placed in small amounts in the forehead and around the eyebrows and eyelids it will appear that the eyebrows are actually lifted and looks just like a surgical brow lift. Some muscles are still working and contracting while the others are not.

Botox Can Lift The Brows

However, Botox only lasts 3-4 months and needs to be repeated. The cost will be around $500 for the non surgical brow lift. (David Finkle, MD, Omaha Plastic Surgeon)

This term refers to the raising up of the eyebrows that occurs when Botox is injected below the brows to relax those muscles that normally pull or hold the brows down with expression. Most commonly, Botox is injected below the outer third of the brow, allowing this portion to rise up and correcting lateral brow sag.

In addition, small amounts of Botox can be placed below the middle and inner thirds of the brow, thereby allowing those areas to rise up, but this is not as commonly done, because the female brow is usually considered more youthful and attractive with an arch that peaks between the middle and outer thirds.

Correction Of Eyebrow Assymentry With Botox By Doctor Tatiana Khrom, MD, New York Dermatologic Surgeon

Remember that the usual Botox effect lasts about 4-5 months. (Richard G. Schwartz, MD, West Palm Beach Plastic Surgeon)

Although it initially sounds paradoxical, Botox can be used to weaken certain muscles to allow a subtle, but pleasing, elevation of the eyebrows. The frown muscles (corrugators) and some related muscles are the target. By treating these muscles, a gentle, natural-looking lift can be achieved.

For most patients Botox works 3-4 months. (Mark J. Lucarelli, MD, Madison Oculoplastic Surgeon)

What is a Botox Lift or Botox Brow Lift?

Doctor Edwin Cortez, MD, FACS, Overland Park Facial Plastic Surgeon – Botox Browlift

Botox is about balancing the eyebrow by selectively altering the muscles that work on it. The eyebrow position is the key to upper facial aesthetics. The Eyebrow is pulled down by gravity and a few muscles and it is pulled up or lifted by another set of muscles.

Botox can selectively weaken or paralyse the muscles that pull the eyebrow down. In doing so the muscles that normally lift the eyebrow upwards can function unopposed creating a lift. The lift produced is about 1-2 mm but the visual appearance of the face is improved.

The key here is to find a real expert as things can go horribly wrong if performed by an amateur. (Naveen Somia, MBBS, PhD, FRACS, Sydney Plastic Surgeon)

The “Botox Brow Lift”

Botox (as well as Dysport and Xeomin — all “neuromodulators) act on muscles by relaxing any tension that might be in the muscle. There are muscles that pull the eyebrows in a downward direction. Even if we aren’t actively trying to pull our eyebrows down with these muscles, there is always a certain amount of tension in these muscles (in some people there’s more tension than in others).

Doctor Thomas M. DeWire Sr., MD , Richmond Plastic Surgeon – Chemical Brow Lift With Botox

Botox has the ability to completely release the tension in the set of muscles that pull downward, thus allowing the tension in the forehead muscles that pull the brows upward to have an unopposed upward pull.

This unopposed upward pull from the forehead muscles that are NOT treated with Botox is what creates the brow “lift”.

There are two sets of muscles that are treated to create this lift: One set lies between the brows and one set is just below the outer corners of each brow.

By injecting Botox in these two areas, a noticeable elevation of the brow can be appreciated (so long as the forehead muscles aren’t treated with Botox at the same time). Although this lift is definite, it is minimal compared to what can be achieved with a surgical brow lift — and, of course, it only lasts until the Botox wears off (3 to 5 months), whereas a surgical brow lift lasts a lifetime. (Richard Parfitt, MD, Madison Facial Plastic Surgeon)

Botox, Dysport, or Xeomin Can All Be Used to Non- Surgically Elevated Eyebrows

Botox, Dysport, or Xeomin Can All Be Used to Non- Surgically Elevated Eyebrows. the way this works is that the muscles that pull the eyebrow down are selectively treated. this weakens the muscles allowing the muscles that elevate the brow to lift.

Depending upon the person this can last from 3- 5 months. As it is not the same as surgery a definitive amount that the brow elevates cannot be always determined but we are shooting for a few millimeters. (Mark Berkowitz, MD, Sterling Heights Oculoplastic Surgeon)

What is a “Botox Lift” or “Botox Brow Lift”?

The Botox brow lift is accomplished by placing botox below the brow in the muscles that pull down the brow. When these muscles are weak, the frontalis muscle (forehead) can do a better job of lifting the brow. (Kurtis Martin, MD, Cincinnati Plastic Surgeon)

Selective Placement Of Botox For Brow Lift

Botox can raise the lateral eyebrows somewhat sometimes.

Botox lifts or raises the outer eyebrows in many patients when done in such a way to do this. It really only works half the time and can over shoot it to make you look spock-like.

It is easy to correct if it ever happens to you. (David Hansen, MD, Beverly Hills Dermatologic Surgeon)

Botox brow lift

Yes it works. You inject the muscles that pull down the brow and once they are weakened the brow goes up! (Gregory T. Lynam, MD, Richmond Plastic Surgeon)

Botox – chemical brow lift

Botox works by temporarily paralyzing muscles. If the muscles were creating facial lines, then these lines will be smoothed when the muscles are no longer active. As skin looses its intrinsic stretch and elastic properties with aging, facial lines develop as the brain tries to keep things elevated.

To Achieve A Botox Brow Lift, I Inject It On The Center Of The Forehead

Botox is perfect for young patients who are just beginning to show forehead lines, since halting the undesirable muscle activity removes the lines and the skin still has enough recoil to hold the eyebrows in an attractive elevated position.

For patients with more advanced aging and skin with poor elastic properties, if the forehead was treated with Botox to smooth the lines, the eyebrows would drop to an unaesthetic position. These patients would benefit from a surgical brow lift and should not waste money on Botox.

For patients who are in between these two age groups, a chemical brow lift can be performed to adjust the eyebrow position. The forehead muscles are elevators, while the glabellar and obicularis muscles are depressors of the eyebrow.

If the depressors are treated with Botox and the elevators are left intact, the eyebrows will elevate. The downside of a chemical brow lift is that forehead lines will result from the frontalis activity, so this procedure is best suited for women who wear bangs.

If you wear your hair back, you may want to consider an endoscopic brow lift. (Michael A. Bogdan, MD, FACS, Dallas Plastic Surgeon)

Botox browlift

The forhead is composed of several muscle groups that are both “elevators” and “depressors” of the eyebrows and forehead. Botox is a muscle paralytic agent and when placed in the depressor muscle function, especially in the lateral eyebrow area, an elevation will occur due to paralysis of the depressor muscles.

Botox results are only temporary, while a surgical browlift is permanent. (William Portuese, MD, Seattle Facial Plastic Surgeon)

Botox Brow Lift

Dr Joseph A. Eviatar, MD, FACS, New York Oculoplastic Surgeon – Brow Lift With Botox

There are muscles above the brow that pull it up and below the brow that pull it down. Botox can be selectively injected in the muscles that are below the brow. This will weaken them, allowing the muscles that are above the brow to pull it up without the opposite downward pull.

This can lead to a “chemical brow lift”. Generally it will lift the brow 2-3mm…which can be significant! (Louis C. Cutolo, Jr., MD, FACS, New York Plastic Surgeon)

Toronto Brow Lift

Botox is used to inactivate specific muscles. In a Botox Brow Lift, the muscles that depress the brow are inactivated so that the frontalis muscle which elevates the brow is unopposed. This results in an elevated brow. (Asif Pirani, MD, FRCS(C), Toronto Plastic Surgeon)