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Will Botox Between the Brows Cause Bunny Lines?
I've read in celebrity gossip mags that really visible bunny lines can be a result of Botox between the eyebrows. Best example is Nicole Kidman.
Is this really true? Do your nose muscles overcompensate when you "freeze" the muscles between your brows? I don't want the "11s," but I don't want to increase wrinkles elsewhere, either.
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Makenzie
in Seattle, WA
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Botox and bunny lines
In general, Botox doesn't cause new lines to form but if you or your muscles are still trying to make certain expressions new muscles and areas may be recruited to do so. Sometimes lines on the nose are already there but when the areas surrounding them become smoother and less noticeable we become heightenedly aware of other areas we may not have noticed before. If the bunny lines become bothersome, they are easily treated with a bit of Botox as well. Many people...
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Bunny Lines after Botox
It's not as easy as "Botox = bunny lines." Yes, rarely, Botox can cause lines to appear in other areas that they weren't previously. This is because the relaxed muscles are no longer working to make a facial expression so other areas are compensating and this may create new appearances. However, the bunny line creation is rare and usually not noticeable (or if noticeable, usually only to the person themself). I wouldn't ever recommend against Botox just because of the possibility of bunny...
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Bunny lines with Botox
These horizontal nasal lines, as seen in your picture of Nicole Kidman, are not caused by Botox but may be rendered more noticeable when the glabellar region is treated because of surrounding recruitment of muscles of animation. I often inject a small amount of Botox into the procerus muscles on either side of the upper nose at the same time as the corrugator treatment if there is evidence of hyperactivity in this region causing a horizontal rhytid. You can be easily treated by...
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Botox cause of bunny lines?
The muscles in the area may be recruited to move the face. More likely, the lines were always there, but are now more noticeable. Botox can treat bunny lines when placed properly. Best to seek out an experienced and well trained injector.
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Botox and bunny lines
It is not usual for bunny lines to develop after treating frown lines. The bunny lines may have been there previously but you were concerned with your frown lines and did not notice them. Alternatively, to compensate for the loss of your frown, you are recruiting other muscles along the nose to cause the bunny lines. In either case, your bunny lines can easily be injected with Botox for a natural look. Please have treatment with an experienced...
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Bunny Lines Between the Brows
Bunny lines are natural in some people. But they can also occur after a Botox injection for frown lines. There are different muscles involved in forming frown lines- the corrugator, proceris muscles between the brows. And when some people frown, the nasalis muscles are active. In most treatment sessions for frown line, the muscles between the brows are targeted. The nasalis muscles then become more visually prominent with the appearance of the bunny lines.
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Botox between Brows does not cause Bunny Lines
Botox treatment between the brows erases or reduces the dynamic wrinkle lines where injected and does not cause bunny lines. On the contrary, Botox treatment on both sides of the upper lateral nose (near this location) eliminates or reduces bunny lines.
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Botox and future bunny lines
When treating any muscle with Botox, it maybe that local muscles try to compensate for the inactivity. This may cause bunny lines to be more apparent if corrugators are treated. The bunny lines can be treated as well.
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We wear life on our face...when life is stressful, or we are thinking deeply, we wear our emotions on our face. We knit our brows, we squint, we purse our lips, we frown. We all use our muscles in ways we do not consciously realize. In some patients, when one muscle group is relaxed, nearby muscle groups are 'recruited' to compensate. So after the glabella is softened, some patients will start gathering the upper part of the nose instead and get bunny lines. In others, relaxing the...
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Botox bunny lines
Some people have bunny lines naturally and botox can help smoothen these out, while some patients only seem to get bunny lines after the glabellar muscles are injected with Botox. The overcompensation does seem to be a reason and this can happen in the lower eyelid muscles when the crows' feet are injected, as is shown in this photograph too.
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