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For Botox induced eyelid ptosis, where do we massage?

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Llama2Sep 25, 2020

So I've read that an electric toothbrush over 'the' muscle helps, but where exactly? Above the eyebrow, below, on the eyelid itself, eyelid open, eyelid closed?

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