Botox or Dysport for forehead wrinkles

Stella Desyatnikova, MD answers: How do I get rid of forehead wrinkles?

People always say I look angry or worried because I have wrinkles on my forehead. Which wrinkle treatments will get rid of forehead lines?


Stella Desyatnikova, MD
19 days ago

 Usually Botox or Dysport treatment works very well for forehead wrinkles. In most patients it is the first, and most often the only treatment necessary. Make sure you go to an experienced provider for furhter examination and to discuss your options. A facial plastic surgeon or a general plastic surgeon usually would have a full range of options available, including surgery, like brow lift, and they can discuss the options with you. If you end up getting the Botox or Dysport treatment, be careful aboiut the inital amount used. Too much, and you can get a bit of a brow droop. 

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A: There are many options for forehead wrinkles

Philip Young, MD
6 months ago

Getting forehead wrinkles can be challenging. There are many options. Botox can prevent your muscles from working and can prevent the wrinkles from getting deeper and in the long run can decrease the appearance of the wrinkles. 

A forehead / browlift can pull up your brows so that you don't have to raise them yourself to increase your visual space and this can eleviate some wrinkles as well. The wrinkles in between your eyes can be improved with botox and as well as manipulating the nerve that makes them work. This second procedure can be done through an incision in your eyelid crease and can last much longer than Botox.

Also, various approaches through a brow lift / forehead lift can take away the muscles that work in between your eyes and weaken them so they don't keep producing wrinkles there. The prolem with taking away muscles is that it can cause a depression there that already exists from losing volume naturally there through aging. 

One way to also improve the wrinkles in the forehead area is to consider volumizing the area. What this does is create a space that used to be there when you were younger that exists between your muscles and the skin. This puts the muscles further away from the skin and hence less action to create the wrinkles. Volumizing is a very natural way to improve the wrinkles in your forehead. 

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