KitteNYC

Botox in Masseters Resulting in Buccal Fat Pad Herniation - New York, NY

How are you doing?

Wtf are the last two comments

Hi, I don't have TMJ though. I did this for cosmetic reasons.

ALTHOUGH i have to add: i started chewing gum on the side that was affected (this masseter was always bigger) and now my masseters are asymmetrical again. FML. You really can't win. The problem, despite my masseters gaining what seems to be full functionality (I can flex them again) this complication is not entirely reversed, which affirms my theory that my dr. hit a muscle other than the masseter. some muscle in the cheek that is responsible for lifting the apple of the cheek...there are SO MANY facial muscles though! it's unnerving to try to theorise which one might be suffering right now

also scary: a three-year study of patients who underwent botox treatment to the masseter showed continued "bone remodeling" way after the botox was supposed to "go away." Meaning, our jawbones are weakening and becoming less dense (cosmetically disintegrating). Fun with neurotoxins...

Hey true2type,

how are you doing? I've been looking at the pictures I'd posted back in may, and gosh, the improvement is pretty obvious. It sure is SLOW though...so slow that it literally does not look different even over a month but you add up 5 months and it's noticeable. I'd LOVE this to be completely gone by christmas. That would be the best present ever...