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Can Botox Help Increase Facial Skin Thickness?

asked 2 years ago by cosmetic in United Kingdom
Latest answer by Michele S. Green, MD
Question viewed 641 times
Tags: face, skin, thicken

13 answers to Can Botox Help Increase Facial Skin Thickness?

Botox has no affect on facial skin thickness

Botox works on the muscles under the skin and has no affect on facial skin thickness. When wrinkles disappear from the botox effect, it is not because they have been filled in nor peeled off. It is because muscles aren't moving as much to create these lines.

David Hansen, MD
Beverly Hills Dermatologic Surgeon

www.DrDavidHansen.com

Botox has no effect on skin thickness

As we age, the skin gets thin. Botox has no effect at all on skin thickness. Botox softens the lines of facial expression but has no effect on the thickness or on the collagen in your skin.

Michele S. Green, MD
New York Dermatologist

Botox has no effect on thickness of the skin

BOTOX® has no effect on the thickness of the skin. It reduces the transmission of nerve impulses to muscles reducing the function of those muscles. There are other modalities that can be used to alter skin thickness.

Sigmund L. Sattenspiel, MD
Freehold Facial Plastic Surgeon

Botox and skin thickness

Botox will NOT increase skin thickness. The muscle "relaxation" of Botox may, over time and with regular treatments, actually soften the bulkiness of the facial muscles. Just as a body builder who quits lifting will lose muscle mass, regular use of Botox will decrease the size of the "overbuilt" muscles of facial expression, or any muscle it is used upon.

Jeffrey C. Poole, MD
Metairie Dermatologic Surgeon

www.pooledermatology.com

Botox: Great for Wrinkles, NO Effect on Skin Thickness

Though Botox can make the skin look smoother by relaxing expression lines, it does not thicken skin. Some of the deeper chemical and laser peels have been shown to increase skin thickness by increasing a protein called collagen in the deep layers of the skin.

Bruce Genter, MD
Abington Plastic Surgeon

Botox doesn't increase skin thickness, but can reduce muscle size

No, Botox use does not result in changes to skin thickness. The skin does thin naturally as we age, and that is a natural process that is unrelated to Botox use. Botox can be used to purposely reduce muscle size. For example, patients who have masseter hypertrophy (a non threatening soft enlargement of the jaw muscles near the angle of the lower jaw), regular Botox treatments can result in weakening and atrophy of those muscles, creating a smaller appearance.

Thomas Buonassisi, MD
Vancouver Facial Plastic Surgeon

Botox and skin thickness

No. BOTOX will not change or modify the thickness of your skin. The only thing that Botox does is to denervate or impede communication of nerve endings with muscles causing a relaxation of the muscle.

Gustavo A. Diaz, MD
Charlotte Facial Plastic Surgeon

Botox and skin thickness

Botox deactivates the muscle of facial animation. Botox does not have any significnat impact on facial skin thickness. Some lasers can help in reorganizing subdermal collagen and promote thicker skin.

Steven Wallach, MD
Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

Botox should not change the thickness of the skin

Botox blocks the transmissions of signals from the nerve to the muscles under the skin. It does not alter the dermal thickness directly. If one has a high resting activity of the contractile muscles before botox then the thickness of the skin and muscle per unit area might be more because of the corrugation of the muscle. After the botox the muscle doesn't contract so it may spread out to its flatter state making the thickness less. If you measure that thickness it would be back to normal.... more

Ronald Shelton, MD
Manhattan Dermatologist

Botulinum toxin (Dysport, etc) and possible effects on skin thickness.

To the best of my knowledge, botulinum toxin's effect on skin thickness has not been investigated ar defined to any significant degree. Theoretically ongoing use of the botulinum will result in shrinkage of the sweat glands in the skin, as well as other adnexal units responsive to acetylcholine release, which could result in atrophy and decreased thickness. However, this is a real reach.

Otto Joseph Placik, MD
Chicago Plastic Surgeon

Botox and skin thickness

Botox has no effect on skin thickness at all. It works to disrupt the nerve impulses to muscles that cause "dynamic" wrinkles, i.e. the muscles that cause wrinkles when they contract. FYI- skin starts to thin out with aging starting around age 40.

Scott E. Kasden, MD
Dallas Plastic Surgeon

Botox help increase facial skin thickness

Interesting question. No, I do not think so but I see where you are going. If the Botox paralyzes the muscle action than the skin has less motion and appears fuller or as you say 'thicker'. THis is just an appearance not a real result. From MIAMI

Darryl J. Blinski, MD
Miami Plastic Surgeon

Botox and skin thickness

No, BOTOX has absolutely no effect on thickening the skin. For that chemical peeling is helpful. Oddly, ablative laser resurfacing seems to have the opposite effect. However, laser does increase collagen in the upper dermis. The bad news is that laser can cause an atrophy in the more superficial skin which is why sometimes people who have had laser resurfacing look like the aliens have sucked their face off.