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Once You Get Botox, Will It Make Your Wrinkles Worse if You Don't Keep Going Once It Wears Off?
Considering getting Botox and a little filler for under eye creasing when smiling. I don't have resting wrinkles yet, but am told getting Botox before wrinkles will help to keep from getting them. Once I do get the Botox and filler, will it look worse once it wears off and I don't keep at it? I'm told not to get it done until I'm ready for the on going commitment as it's not something to do just once in awhile. Is this true and will getting Botox in one area create wrinkles in another area?
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Will your wrinkles worsen if you stop Botox...
Botox is one of the most commonly performed plastic surgery procedures and it has been used by men and women for years. When correctly injected, it normally lasts for about four months. Botox is FDA approved and has been in use for over 25 years so its safety is well documented. Once the effect of Botox wears off, the skin will not be any worse than it was before the treatment. The aging process will continue if you don't reinject, but if you take a Botox break, you...
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Can Botox make wrinkles worse if you don't have repeat treatments?
Botox can be preventative. For example, if an individual frequently frowns, the Botox can decrease the frowning, thus decreasing the lines that will appear in the future.
Once the Botox and/or filler wears off, you will not look any different than if you never had the injections. They only mask the effects of aging. Botox will last an average of 3 months, and fillers generally last 6 months on average - sometimes longer depending on the patient. Getting Botox in one area will not create...
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Botox for wrinkles
Botox injections improve and prevent facial wrinkles. Botox effects usually last 3-4 months, and sometimes longer with repeated treatments. If you stop doing Botox, the results won't get dramatically worse, but you'll slowly start losing the results gained by previous maintenance injections.
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Botox prevents wrinkles, it does not make them worse.
Botox will prevent your wrinkles from worsening while you keep up with your treatments. If you decide to stop having Botox treatments, you will slowly lose the relaxing effect of Botox and will resume the normal development of wrinkles with movement. Botox will not make wrinkles worse.
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Botox Rebound Effect
There is no risk of wrinkles looking "worse" after Botox wears off. However, you may think they do because you will notice them more after getting used to the wrinkle-free face of Botox.
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If You Stop Having BOTOX. Will I Look Worse???
If you receive BOTOX treatments for dynamic facial wrinkles the results often are
AMAZING!!!! If at any time you decide to stop treatments, there will be no untoward effect. You will just go back to baseline, with the ability to form those nasty wrinkles and lines once again.
San Antonio Dermatologic Surgeon
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Botox and fillers
It is a commitment, if you want to keep the wrinkles formed at bay, and help with volume, over time. Botox doesn't cause more wrinkles but because you've treated one area, you can automatically have other muscles in neighboring areas that are recruited and used instead.
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Botox will not make wrinkles worse
Botox will not cause worsening of your wrinkles after treatment effects dissipate. You will return to your normal baseline afterwards. It is a safe and effective treatment when used by an experienced cosmetic dermatologist/ surgeon.
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Botox for Results Maintenance
Botox and Dysport typically last 4-6months. If you are looking for maintenance of your results, you will have to continue getting therapy with your toxin of choice or consider other options like laser or a face-lift. You won't look worse for having used the toxin, if anything those 4-6 months of not being able to frown may take away what would have been 4-6 months of frowning that could have left deeper wrinkles. These are elective procedures, and are typically not...
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Once You Get Botox, Will It Make Your Wrinkles Worse if You Don't Keep Going Once It Wears Off?
I have used either Botox, Dysport or Xeomin to soften unwanted lines and wrinkles for 22 years and IMHO, stopping the injections will not result in worse wrinkles...they will go back to what they were before you had them treated.
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Botox and Fillers effects over Time
Botox and fillers do not speed the aging process if you discontinue them. In fact, if you do botox treatments a few times a year for a couple of years, the treatment develops some permanence. Wrinkles which used to be present will no longer be present after the botox wears off. In this way, botox can prevent wrinkles from forming.
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Stoping Botox Does Not Advance the Wrinkling Process
If you decide not to get Botox any more, you will have dynamic wrinkles in your forehead, around your eyes, in between your brows and in other places - Botox will enhance your facial features by not allowing wrinkles and wrinkling when you smile or frown. It is best to continue with Botox to minimize the chronic folds in the skin that develop over the years. Not getting more Botox will make you age as you normally are expected to age ... no more and not faster.
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Does Botox Cause Further Aging?
Hi Natural. We get asked this question often. "Will using Botox or fillers cause me to age faster or differently if I stop using them?" The answer is that Botox and dermal fillers cannot stop, slow or speed up the aging process, they simply hide the imperfections aging causes while we are using them.
Simply put, you will age at the same rate whether or not you are using these products and you will never be worse off as far as aging goes because you have used them.
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Botox slows the progression of under eye wrinkles
Botox will slow the progression of under eye wrinkles.
If you don't have resting wrinkles, that is a great time to start. You do not have to commit to always getting Botox. It won't create wrinkles in other areas.
It only is working for ~3 months after each injection, but you can certainly do it sometimes and not others. It won't look worse when it wears off, it will just go back to the way it was, and you will have 'warded off' wrinkles for a bit longer while...
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Do wrinkles get worse if you stop Botox
The quick answer is no, your wrinkles don't get worse if you stop doing Botox, as in, they don't get worse than they were to begin with. But like you're stating, Botox and fillers are an ongoing commitment and aren't permanent (which is a good thing), so if you try them and don't want to continue, your facial structure will just return. Seek an in-person consultation from a board-certified injector. People who get the best results are those who do the procedures frequently enough that they...
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Doing Botox in your younger years is smart
If you stop getting Botox, the repetitive creasing from muscle activity will allow wrinkles to form. But they won't be worse! If you already have wrinkles at rest, yes, you need to keep getting Botox so that the creased in line has time to fade. A common complaint of people who have wrinkles at rest is that Botox didn't work--this is a misconception, as Botox keeps you from creating the wrinkle, but once the wrinkle is creased into your skin, it will take both Botox and time (and skin care)...
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