BOTOX On Hilton Head
Years of laughing, crying, smiling and frowning can leave their mark on your face. Lines between your eyebrows, across your forehead, and at the corners of your eyes can make you look angry, tired, sad, or some combination of the above.
Luckily, there’s a way to smooth those lines and help you feel more confident in your appearance. If you are interested in visiting our Hilton Head Island location to learn more about injectables or Botox, feel free to call or stop by.
Choose the brand medical providers and patients know and trust: BOTOX® Cosmetic. Learn more about how BOTOX® Cosmetic works and what you can expect.
What Is Botox?
Botox is the first and only treatment FDA-approved to temporarily make moderate to severe frown lines, crow’s feet, and forehead lines look better in adults. The primary ingredient in Botox is onobotulinumtoxinA, a type of protein produced by the bacteria Clostridium botulinum.
To understand how Botox works, it helps to understand how wrinkles form. There are two types of wrinkles: dynamic and static. Static wrinkles develop as a result of sun damage, poor diet, smoking and your genes. Dynamic wrinkles form after repeated facial movements.
Every time you laugh, cry, or smile, you make a little fold in the skin at certain points. After years of making the same facial expressions, creases end up developing in the skin. If you make fewer facial movements, you end up with fewer dynamic wrinkles.
The protein in Botox blocks the muscle movements that create dynamic wrinkles. If you have any of the following wrinkles, Botox might be right for you:
- Horizontal forehead lines
- Crow’s feet (at the corners of the eyes)
- Frown lines (also called “11’s”, located between the eyebrows)
Botox is FDA-approved and is safe when injected by a trained professional, such as a physician’s assistant, nurse practitioner, or plastic surgeon.
Working with a trained professional also allows you to customize your treatment results. Some patients want a very natural result, with the ability to make certain facial expressions while minimizing their lines and wrinkles. Before the injections, discuss your treatment goals with your practitioner, so they can determine how much to inject and where the most appropriate injection locations are.
Botox Treatment and Results
The treatment process with Botox is simple. When it’s time for your appointment, you let the practitioner know what areas you want to treat and what your concerns are. They then administer the Botox using a very fine needle. How many units you need depends on the size of the treatment area and how many areas you’re treating. The process usually takes about 10 minutes.
Once your appointment is over, you can go back to your regular activities right away, with few restrictions. If you scheduled Botox on your lunch break, you can return to work for the rest of the day. To minimize the risk of side effects, skip exercising or other strenuous activities in the 24 hours following your treatment.
You might notice some improvement in your lines and wrinkles starting a few days after Botox treatment. Usually, full results appear about a week or two later. Your results aren’t permanent. As the effects wear off, you’ll begin to move the muscles again, leading to the reappearance of certain lines. To keep up results, schedule maintenance treatments every three to six months.
Schedule Botox Treatment in Hilton Head, South Carolina Today
If you’re ready to say goodbye to your frown lines, crow’s feet, or forehead wrinkles, contact LUX～A Medical Spa in Hilton Head. LUX is the only medical spa in the Lowcountry directed by both a plastic surgeon and a dermatologist. Call (843) 310-1911 to set up a consultation or write to us here.
Botox Usage
BOTOX® Cosmetic is a prescription medicine that is injected into muscles and used to temporarily improve the look of moderate to severe forehead lines, crow’s feet lines, and frown lines between the eyebrows in adults.
Tell your doctor about all your muscle or nerve conditions, such as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease, myasthenia gravis, or Lambert-Eaton syndrome, as you may be at increased risk of serious side effects including difficulty swallowing and difficulty breathing from typical doses of BOTOX® Cosmetic.
Tell your doctor about all your medical conditions, including: plans to have surgery; had surgery on your face; have trouble raising your eyebrows; drooping eyelids; any other abnormal facial change; are pregnant or plan to become pregnant (it is not known if BOTOX® Cosmetic can harm your unborn baby); are breastfeeding or plan to (it is not known if BOTOX® Cosmetic passes into breast milk).
Tell your doctor about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. Using BOTOX® Cosmetic with certain other medicines may cause serious side effects. Do not start any new medicines until you have told your doctor that you have received BOTOX® Cosmetic in the past.
Tell your doctor if you have received any other botulinum toxin product in the last 4 months; have received injections of botulinum toxin such as MyoblocⓇ, Dysport®, or Xeomin® in the past (tell your doctor exactly which product you received); have recently received an antibiotic by injection; take muscle relaxants; take an allergy or cold medicine; take a sleep medicine; take aspirin-like products or blood thinners.
BOTOX® Cosmetic may cause serious side effects that can be life threatening. Get medical help right away if you have any of these problems any time (hours to weeks) after injection of BOTOX® Cosmetic:
Problems swallowing, speaking, or breathing, due to weakening of associated muscles, can be severe and result in loss of life. You are at the highest risk if these problems are pre-existing before injection. Swallowing problems may last for several months.
Spread of toxin effects. The effect of botulinum toxin may affect areas away from the injection site and cause serious symptoms including: loss of strength and all-over muscle weakness, double vision, blurred vision and drooping eyelids, hoarseness or change or loss of voice, trouble saying words clearly, loss of bladder control, trouble breathing, and trouble swallowing.
BOTOX® Cosmetic dosing units are not the same as, or comparable to, any other botulinum toxin product.
There has not been a confirmed serious case of spread of toxin effect when BOTOX® Cosmetic has been used at the recommended dose to treat frown lines, crow’s feet lines, and/or forehead lines.
BOTOX® Cosmetic may cause loss of strength or general muscle weakness, vision problems, or dizziness within hours to weeks of taking BOTOX® Cosmetic. If this happens, do not drive a car, operate machinery, or do other dangerous activities.
Serious and/or immediate allergic reactions have been reported. They include: itching, rash, red itchy welts, wheezing, asthma symptoms, or dizziness or feeling faint. Get medical help right away if you are wheezing or have asthma symptoms, or if you become dizzy or faint.
Do not receive BOTOX® Cosmetic if you are allergic to any of the ingredients in BOTOX® Cosmetic (see Medication Guide for ingredients); had an allergic reaction to any other botulinum toxin product such as Myobloc® (rimabotulinumtoxin B), Dysport® (abobotulinumtoxinA), or Xeomin® (incobotulinumtoxinA); have a skin infection at the planned injection site.
Benefits of Botox
- A quick 10-minute treatment with minimal downtime
- You may begin to notice results within 24 to 48 hours for moderate to severe frown lines
- It delivers predictable, subtle results, so you look like you, only with less noticeable facial lines
Botox Side Effects
- Bruising at the injection site
- Discomfort or pain at the injection site
- Dry mouth
- Tiredness
- Headache
- Neck pain
- Eye problems: double vision, blurred vision, decreased eyesight, drooping eyelids and eyebrows, swelling of your eyelids and dry eyes