Waiting Period for Botox or Restylane After Rhinoplasty?

First, of course ask your rhinoplasty surgeon and have their office do the treatments. Don't go off somewhere else just because it might be cheaper. No one wants better for you than someone who has operated on you! I would imaging that they will tell you that the Botox is fine anytime and that you should wait on the fillers in the nasolabial folds until your swelling is mostly gone from the surgery.

It is always safest to first check with your surgeon who did a procedure before you have an additional treatment elsewhere. There is still some minimal swelling, even three weeks after surgery on the nose, so if you have a rhinoplasty, it might be wise to wait until virtually all the swelling subsides so that the doctor doing the fillers has a better grasp on the amount of correction you need, otherwise too little filler might be injected. Similarly, the glabellar part of the forehead,... more

Hi, I typically tell my patients to wait 3 weeks after Rhinoplasty for Injectables. The reason for this is that I believe there are Inflammatory reactions that may decrease the longevity of Botox or other injectable fillers. All injectables are typically removed from your body through the inflammatory process, therefore waiting for the inflammatory reaction to subside is prudent. Best, Dr.S

In general there should be no problem but there is no definitve answer for this. Theoretically, you still have some facial swelling albeit minor from the rhinoplasty which may effect the placement of the Juvederm. If Botox is placed in your procerus muscle (bridge of the nose), this may not spread as well as if it were placed in mature scar tissue (minimum of 3 months after surgery and more likely 1 year).

 Go for it!  It should be perfectly fine to have Botox for your forehead and fillers injected into your nasolabial folds 6 weeks after a rhinoplasty.

Placement of Botox in for forehead / glabella and Crow's feet should not impact the operation in any way . Neither should placing Restylane in the nose to mouth (Nasolabial) folds. After six weeks your rhinoplasty healing should be well underway. Good Luck.