Consultants in Ophthalmic and Facial Plastic Surgery - Livonia

A: Receiving a personalized treatment pattern is key for success and patient happiness. Having a discussion with your provider about your goals for treatment is very important. The glabellar region (procerus and corrugator muscles) depresses the medial brow and creates the "11 lines." By injecting this area, the "11 lines" diminish and the central brow becomes smooth. By injecting across the forehead, you treat the frontalis muscle, which is the only muscle which elevates the brows and forehead. With various patterns combined with other injection sites (mainly the glabellar area and crow's feet and sparing the lateral frontalis muscle), you can get a mild lateral brow lift due to unopposed action of the lateral frontalis muscle. If the main concern is forehead wrinkles, an injection pattern dispersed across the frontalis muscle is very reasonable and does not require additional injection sites. It is important to realize that injections into the forehead can lead to drooping of the brow since this weakens the only muscle that elevates the brow.