I Had Ultherapy This Week and Am Scheduled to Have Botox Early Next Week. Too Soon?

As the medical director of one of the busiest Ultherapy center in Northern California, I have seen synergistic clinical benefits when Ultherapy is combined with any of the injectable wrinkle treatments such as Botox, Dysport, Xeomin or Juvederm, Radiesse, or Sculptra injections. In my clinical opinion and experience, as long as Ultherapy is done first, Botox or filler injections can be done almost immediately afterwards.

Ulthera treatments are excellent complements to other cosmetic plastic surgery treatments such as Botox, Radiesse, Sculptra, and Xeomin. One week is a good interval for the Botox. Raffy Karamanoukian, Los Angeles

The treatment of Botox involves injecting the Botulinum toxin into the correct anatomical site to relax those muscles. Whether there is some swelling in the area or not should not make a difference when administering Botox injections to make wrinkles soften. 

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I would wait a full 14 days for the swelling to go down from the Ulthera before you get Botox or fillers, as this will help to ensure that the best results are seen from both of your treatments. Good luck.

Botox/Dysport can be done either a few days before or a few days after ultherapy since the swelling from the ultherapy may allow the botox to spread too much but they are great together just separated. Sincerely,

David Hansen,MD

For my Ultherapy patients, I recommend strongly that they have Botox, Dysport or Xeomin before their treatments.  It is a huge help as it stabilizes the area and allows for the best results.  

Generally, I like to have fillers on the same day as Ultherapy or after it rather than before, but depending on where the fillers are placed, it may be perfectly fine.  Ultherapy is done in certain areas and often, these areas aren't the areas where the filler has been placed.

The benefits of having both Botox and fillers are significant as they are helping to stimulate the collagen and make the results of the Ultherapy much better.

Depending on the areas treated with Botox and Ulthera, there should be no problem having them done a week apart and it might even enhance the result. Remember the full effects of Ulthera do not appear right away, so relaxing the area with Botox might enable better response.

Hi Les,

It has been shown that combining Botox or Dysport treatment along with Ultherapy gives the best results.  I advise my patients to have their Botox?Dysport treatment of their forehead and crows feet either a few days before Ultherapy or a few days after.  We do not do the treatments at the same time for fear that the neuro-modulator (Botox or Dysport) will spread to areas where we do not wish it to be from the minimal swelling resulting from Ulthera.  Good luck and be well!

 

Dr. P

Generally speaking it is safe to treat with Botox approximately 1
week post procedure to ensure all inflammation has gone down. This is a great
compliment to the procedure. A neuromodulator such as Botox can be a wonderful
treatment for those who are looking for more instant gratification alongside
Ultherapy in which can take several weeks for the full impact.

Thank you for your question! Yes, Ultherapy followed by botox a week later is great. We often do this combination in our practice. Ultherapy is great in combination with neuromodulators, fillers and resurfacing lasers.The botox or dysport can help with those lines and wrinkles formed from strong muscular movement, the lasers can even out tone and texture, and the filler can help with those deeper folds that need a little extra help and also to replace volume loss.