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Mary Lupo, MD answers: Preventing eye ptosis from Botox?

I keep hearing more and more cases of eyelid ptosis or "droopy" or closed eye from Botox. Is there a way to decrease the chances of this happening? Does it happen as often with Dysport as well?


Mary Lupo, MD
21 days ago

Sometimes, an inexperienced injector will inject the muscles in such a way that the brow elevator muscles are weakened and the brows drop. There are certain patients in whom this is a higher risk. An experienced injector will recognize them and avoid the injections that cause this to happen. True eyelid ptosis is very rare (where the lid levator is impaired). It is corrected with Iopidine.

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