Would Like to Understand Why Botox Brow Lift Went Wrong? (photo)

Hello,

This is a very good question. Botox works by temporarily weakening overactive muscles. When injected into the area between the eyebrows, two muscles which pull the brow downward are targeted, the procerus and corrugator muscles. Weakening muscles that pull the brow down helps produce a brow lift.

Botox injected ABOVE the lateral brow would affect the frontalis muscle, which pulls the brow upward. Weakening this muscle would produce the opposite effect, leading to a lower brow position.

To produce a lift of the brow, Botox should have been injected UNDER the lateral brow, weakening a portion of the orbicularis muscle, which pulls the brow downward. This injection site tends to produce a (mild) elevation of the outer brow.

Most so-called brow lift treatments are more designed to avoid causing eyelid ptosis and less concerned with brow lifting.  The orbicularis oculi at the eye brow and below the eyebrow functions as the eyebrow depressor.  Most so-called brow lift treatments actually avoids treating this muscle because it is widely thought it will risk dropping the eyelid.  I had the insight that these muscles insert into the skin.  By placing very small quantities of micro droplet botulinum toxin in very small quantities between the skin and these muscles, it is possible to trap the agent and limit diffusion, thereby avoiding upper eyelid ptosis.  I call this method micro droplet botulinum toxin treatment.  The insight was original and I have a US patent on the method.  This treatment is profoundly different than the method you have been getting.