Is There a Doctor in Atlanta, GA That Knows How to Use Botox for Bells Palsy?

Thank you for your question. The amount of Botox that we use for cosmetic indications stays localized to the muscles that we inject it in. It requires a very small amount to relax the muscles that we are treating and get the results that we are looking for. At the low doses that we use, it will...

Sterile water as opposed to saline is hypotonic.  It is very uncomfortable to this injected.  It is also possible that you are in fact having some type of allergy either to the botox or to another ingredient.  If that is the case, oral prednisone might be helpful.  I would...

  Botox to the muscle in this area can lengthen the upper lip or the apparent length.  Depending upon what was done with the frenectomy, this may have lengthened the upper lip as well.  If there was tissue rearrangement, there can be lip lengthening as well.

Botox doesn't cause dilation of blood vessels and doesn't typically last six months. You might want to consider other reasons this may have occurred and visit with your primary care physician.

Thank you for your question. A very small dose of Botox is used to treat the wrinkles of the lips. Also, Botox is quite labile, meaning that the little bit dripped into your mouth would become likely unactive quite quickly. Any of the symptoms that you are experiencing would not be expected to...

      If the diagnosis of blepharospasm is correct, Botox can be very effective when administered appropriately, but it may not work in every case.  Sometimes surgery may be contemplated.