What is a "Botox lift" or "Botox Brow Lift"?

Great question. Nearly all the muscles in our body are arranged in 2 opposing groups. Muscles that FLEX fighting muscles that EXTEND. In the face, muscles that LIFT are opposed by muscles that depress. Two important structures of the face can be lifted : the Brows and the corners of the mouth. BROWS - the brow... more

Hi, Botox works by chemically paralyzing muscle groups.  If your doctor wants certain portions of the face to be positioned in a certain direction, he or she can use Botox to paralyze the muscle groups with cause the face to move in the opposite direction. So, in the case of the brows, Botox can be used... more

I believe that the Botox brow lift you are referring to is a tail of the brow injection.  The mechanism which allows this to happen is via chemical relaxation of a muscle that functions to pull the brow down (the superolateral orbicularis oculi).  This functions to spring the brow upward, lifting the... more

Botox if injected properly can often create a chemical brow lift in most patients. Botox acts by weakening the muscles that cause frowning and scowling. If botox is used to treat the depressor muscles of the forehead that cause scowling or frowning and the other forehead muscles on the side are left alone,... more

This allows your muscles that elevate your eyebrows to work with less inhibition. This is how the Botox brow lift works. Botox weakens the muscles between your eyes and around your eyes to allow the frontalis muscle to lift the eyebrows up more. It takes experience to do this but knowing where to put the botox... more

The lateral orbicularis muscle (muscle around the eyes involved with squinting) is a depressor of the lateral brow.  Paralyzing this portion of the muscle allows the brow elevators to have a greater effect on brow position.

Droopy eyebrows can sometimes be improved by the administration of Botox Cosmetic into antagonistic muscles such as the lateral orbicularis oculi. This produces a slight elevation in eyebrow position.

Botox can be used to achieve a 'chemical brow lift'. There are antagonistic muscles in the face/brow that work in balance to adjust the brow position. If one appropriately injects the opposing muscles in the correct positions, one can achieve a 'brow lift'.   The frontalis muscle can be injected in... more

The Botox Brow-Lift  is a technique that good plastic surgeons uses all the time.  The frontalis and obicularis oculi muscles are "antagonistic muscle pairs" for eyebrow position - when one contracts the other relaxes - changing the eyebrow position. The skill part of injecting botox is... more

In physiology, we term the actions of muscles to be agonist and antagonist muscles. This refers to the results of the muscle contraction. Certain muscles play "tug-of-war" with areas of the face. Examples include: The corner of the mouth: Muscles lift the corner in a... more