Does Botox injection help increase blood circulation on the scalp? Can it help regrow thicker hair?

Botox does not help with blood circulation or hair regrowth. For this, I recommend the following to my patients;

Start Theradome now (see link) and in office PRP/acell, you can do early transplant if you want. You need a formal evaluation to see what type of hair loss you may have. when you have hairless its best to do a full hormonal workup for internal optimization plus scalp biopsies or scrapings to rule out any stress related, inflammatory, autoimmune or infectious causes of hair loss. In general most people with early hair loss have telogen (stress related) and/or androgenetic (normal aging) and both can be treated with in office treatments like steroid injections, PRP/acell, Exosomes and at home treatments like oral medications, oral vitamins like Viviscal, topical exfoliating sprays like Restorsea, and weekly growth factors like anteagemd. See an expert for an evaluation. If hair loss is significant it may requires hair transplant (follicular unit translation) Best, Dr. Emer

We encourage you to look into alternatives such as SkinPen with plasma. This nonsurgical treatment uses platelets from your own blood injected into the scalp to stimulate hair growth. We also offer Hydrafacial Keravive treatments as another non surgical option to stimulate hair growth. You can learn more by visiting my website or a provider near you.

Technically there are small muscle fibers surrounding the hair follicle. In theory, Botox injections would decreased the activity of these muscles and can potentially relax the muscles around blood vessels to increase blood flow to the hair follicle. This in theory would increase the growth of the hair follicle.

Thank you for your question! Injection of Botox in the scalp stimulate hair growth, it relaxes muscles and thereby increases blood circulation to the hair follicles . Always consult with a board certified medical practitioner for your Botox treatments for best results.