Is it Okay to Get Botox to Frown Lines Only and Not Forehead as Well?

Thank you for your question. The frown lines between the brows can be address two different ways:
1) Botox or Dysport can be used to soften the deepening of the frown lines when making a frown expression. The treatment may even soften the lines that are present at rest. The effects typically last 3-4 months depending on the dose.
2) Restylane or Juvederm can be used to soften the frown lines that are present even when you don't make an expression. This can last for a year or more when used in conjuction with Botox.
For someone who has concerns with both the static lines (without expression) and the dynamic lines (with expression), then using both products would work well together.
I often find that patients who return after a Botox or Dysport treatment in the frown areas complaining it didn't work, is due to the confusion between the static and dynamic frown lines. They continue to see the static lines even though the dynamic lines have softened considerably.It is ok to only get one option, and it is ok to only get the frown line treated while leaving the forehead lines alone.

Deciding on where to inject botox is not only a matter of knowing where the muscles are but what the aesthetic effect of injecting those muscles will be. The muscles between the eyebrows, the glabella, and the muscles around the outside of the eye, crows feet, pull the brow down. Paralyzing these muscles will allow the brow to go up in a pleasing way without injecting the forehead. The analogy I use is like a tug of war between the elevators and the depressors, if the depressors are unopposed the brow drifts upward without effort.

The forehead can be injected if there is significant motion but care must be taken to avoid lowering the brow or flattening the arch form.

The short answer is yes you can have just the glabella treated.

I hope this was helpful

"​For glabellar lines (or frown lines / ""11"" lines), we inject Botox, Xeomin, or Dysport into the muscle, causing the muscle to weaken and improving the appearance of the lines. These work by binding to receptors that send nerve signals for muscles to contract. Since your body makes new receptors and neurotransmitters all the time, it needs to be maintained otherwise the wrinkles will slowly return as the muscle regains function over time. Neurotoxins take 2 to 4 weeks to start working and lasts for up to 6 months.

For deeper glabella lines or strong 11s, I use a combination of Botox with fillers, lasers and microneedling with PRP. I suggest getting a formal evaluation with an experienced cosmetic dermatologist and expert in lasers and fillers. Best, Dr. Emer
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I too charge for botox and dysport by the area which is usually about 25 units.   But in reality, I charge a minimum of 25 units. 100% of the time, a person can benefit from that doseage.  It is not uncommon to do more and maybe not a full 25 units for another area and we just charge for what is used.  Talk to your provider, if they are not accomodating, then find someone else.Good luck

One option is to go to someone who charges by the unit rather than the area.  This may help you achieve natural Botox results and have a more balanced look.  Surgery90210

In some patients, treating only the frown lines in the glabella area can raise the eyebrows extremely high (i.e. the Spock look). But this does not occur consistently with everyone.

However, many doctors do not charge exclusively by the area. In other words, the objective of the treatment should be to minimize the frown lines and achieve an overall cosmetically acceptable result. So if you are one of the individuals who is prone to developing the Spock look, then your doctor should address the muscles in the brows as well, instead of considering this to be a separate area.

Usually there is no problem to treat only the "11", the vertical frown lines between the eyebrows. This can help smoothen the area and help lift the forehead. 

In patients, though,  whose forehead horizontal creases are significant, having botox in the upper forehead without the frown lines is often not suitable as it would lessen the forehead's ability to raise the eyebrows, and,  as the lifting effect of the glabellar wouldn't be present, the eyebrow / upper eyelid complex could drop.

In 1991, I was among the first physicians in the United States in any field to inject Botox for cosmetic reasons--eleven years before it received its official FDA approval for that purpose. At that time, and for more than a decade afterward, the primary esthetic indication for Botox treatment was for treating the Scowl Lines between the eyes, sometimes also referred to as the "Eleven" Lines, or Angry Lines, or Frown Lines. In fact, the initial official indication for the approval by the FDA was for treatment of this region only.

However, the fact is that by the mid-1990s already, those of us experienced with Botox were already safely and effectively using Botox to treat the crow's feet, worry lines, turkey neck bands, and crinkles directly under the eyes and between and above breasts. Still later, we routinely began using it for the so-called Nefertiti face lift, a technique for giving a nonsurgical lift to the upper neck and straightening of the jawline. And today, the choice of neuromodulators has broadened to include Dysport and Xeomin. 

The beauty of all these products is that they can be used on just one area or all the areas mentioned simultaneously or at various sittings. Unlike surgical procedures, which are pretty much all or none types of interventions, treatment with agents like Botox can be tailored to your particular needs and budget and, in the hands of experienced injectors, can yield consistently gratifying results. 

No self-respecting Botox injector would not let you walk around with spock eyebrows, even if you only paid for one "area".  The "Spock" eyebrows occur in people who have a lot of tone in the frontalis, the muscle that raises the eyebrows, usually a result of having droopy brows to begin with.  When you inject the frowner muscles between the eyes, the overlying frontalis muscle invariably gets weakened somewhat and this lets the portion of the muscle toward the outer part of the eyebrow raise unopposed, therefore causing the peak.  The keys are to inject correctly in the frowner muscles and be able to recognize patients at risk for the abnormal peaking.  The peak can then be prevented by placing a tiny amount of botox laterally.

You shouldn't be limited by "areas".  The doctor should give you a price for correcting only the issues you want addressed.

I agree with other doctors on the panel. get it for the areas that concern u the most. once u are comfortable with the Botox in a certain area then u can get it for other areas as well