The corner of my mouth is no longer raising when I smile. What went wrong with my Masseter Botox?

April 7, 2014
Asked By:MortgageGirl in San Diego, California

I had 15 units injected in both masseters on May 18th, 2014. The doctor injected 2 areas On the right side of my face when he went to inject the lower part, I felt a squirting of some sort and as though it wasn't going entirely into the muscle. When I went back to show him that the corner of my mouth is no longer raising when I smile, he acknowledged and said the Botox most likely migrated to my zygomatic muscles. He says this will take a few months to go away. However, if my zygomatic muscles are not being used now, won't I have to retrain them overtime to go back to normal?

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