I had botox for a gummy smile and now have a terrible joker smile. Can this be fixed by targeting other muscles? (Photo)

Thank you for sharing your question and photographs. Unfortunately there is no immediate fix, you will need to allow the Botox to wear off naturally. Either an inappropriate injection site was used, or too much botox, so adjustments can be made with any future treatments to help minimize this risk.

Sorry to hear about your issues. My personal opinion, if you try targeting other muscles, you may find that things could get worse. I find that if you start chasing issues and adjusting muscles that can be difficult to adjust (around the mouth) things could get much worse.

I hate to say it, but I would certainly recommend letting the Botox wear off prior to treating again.

Thank you for your question. There are multiple muscles that go into making a smile. Using Botox you can target the larger muscles further laterally on the mouth to weaken those and help with the smile. Make sure to go to the an experienced plastic surgeon injector.

I'm sorry to hear of the issues you are having since your Botox treatment. The Botox effects will fade gradually over the next couple of months. If you inject more product it may lead to further issues, so it is probably best to wait until it wears off. I would recommend visiting with your injector so that notes can be made and/or adjustments done at your next treatment.

First and foremost, thank you for your photos. Without seeing a before photo it does make things a bit more difficult to assess, but I would say a few things: 1. things should soften up if a small dose of Botox was used rather fast (2-6 weeks). 2. Luckily your smile (although not your "normal" smile) looks pretty good! 3. You could always target another area, but the lower face is very sensitive to botox injections. I personally would let it return to normal as adding more has a risk of making things worse.

While botox takes time to fade away, you may exercise on the mirror your lower lip depressors muscles to contradict the zigomatics and risorius. Hope I've helped.

Hello and thank you for your question. Although a face to face examination would be best to give you detailed options from your photos our advice would be to wait for it to wear off as injecting more botox may make the situation worse. Next time the best thing to do is go for a consult with an experienced and qualified practitioner, best wishes