Wrinkle Relaxation

• General
• Treatment Areas
• Safety Concerns

Wrinkle relaxing injections for frown lines?

Crease lines and wrinkles are a natural process of ageing due to a combination of sun damage, gravity, and the muscle action of laughing, talking, frowning, and crying. Filling agents including collagen and Restylane are the mainstay of non-surgical treatments. Surgical options include face, forehead, neck and eye lifting operations, dermabrasion, laser resurfacing, fat transfer and deep chemical peels.

Between the eyebrows, the vertical frown lines result from over-active muscles. These muscles are also used when concentrating. By drawing the eyebrows inward, one expresses anger, confusion or anxiety. Repeated often enough, permanent skin creases develop and even when relaxed, these frown lines remain. Relaxation of these overactive brow muscles helps to eliminate these negative appearances.

Wrinkle relaxing injections for crow's feet! smile lines sround the eyes

Wrinkles, radiating from the corner of the eyes caused by smiling, laughing or squinting and are especially distressing to some individuals. Previously, no reasonable medical or surgical solution improved this problem due to the strong underlying muscles. Even with the deepest chemical peels or laser resurfacing techniques, rapid recurrence of these lines around the eyes is inevitable. Wrinkle relaxing injections is used to prevent the recurrence of wrinkles by inhibiting the underlying muscles. It is often used as a combination with peels and laser to give a longer lasting effect.

Horizontal forehead lines

Some individuals use different muscles for raising the brows; others "talk" with their forehead. A more dilute toxin is used when treating the horizontal forehead lines. A longer lasting alternative for this area is a forehead lift, which is now being increasingly performed endoscopically in order to leave minimal surgical scars.

Nasolabial folds and lips

The real advance in this area has been the development of a long lasting filling agent with the technique of fat transfer. This area is very mobile when talking, smiling and eating. Treatment of the areas involving the lips and around the mouth has to be approached very carefully, to avoid asymmetry of the smile and problems with drinking. A gradual treatment can avoid complications and lead to moderate improvement.

Neck banding

When asked to "flare one's neck" banding may be seen. At rest in older patients these hanging bands can be seen on the neck. They are produced by the platysma muscles of the neck. In the past, the only treatment of theses bands was surgical, with neck lifting to tighten these muscles. Wrinkle relaxing injections has found its place as a non-surgical treatment to the mild form of these bands.