How BOTOX® Is Injected

Arriving at the clinic

will check you in and give you any documentation to read that is to the procedure. The consultation with your would have covered all of this information before.

Consenting to your Botox treatment

Once inside the treatment room, the practitioner will recap on the to make sure you are clear about the and answer any further you may have. A consent form will then be signed.

Preparing the face for treatment

Your practitioner will then ask you to make a series of facial expressions. Some practitioners mark the areas Champagne On Ice – Deep Cleansing your face that will be injected into; some do not. It is an individual preference.

At this point, the sites of the will be cleaned using a .

BOTOX injections do not normally the use of an (this comes in the form of a cream, which is smoothed into the area of the skin to be injected) as the needles are so small and the injections are very .

How is Botox administered?

Your will have a detailed knowledge of the face, the skin’s thickness and the type of muscle to be found at different sites in the face. They will use this knowledge to judge the location of the muscle into which the Botox injection will go and the depth to which the needle must be inserted.

How deep is Botox injected?

One of the most common mistakes that untrained do is not injecting Botox deeply enough or injecting it too superficially. Botox must be injected into the layers of the skin in some areas, while in others, it needs to be injected deeply. One is the masseter muscle near the mouth. If a doesn’t inject this muscle deeply enough, patients can end up with an uneven or smile. This is why it is so important to choose a clinic with safety and trained staff that will know how deep should botox be .

BOTOX relaxes muscles by attaching itself to nerve that are to the muscles in question. This blocks the transmission of that send their specific to from the brain telling them to move. When this is blocked, in the face will not crease up, and the skin on the will remain smooth, not wrinkled.

Because Botulinum Toxin is injected directly into the muscle, nearby areas do not have the . Treatment is not long-lasting as nerves will grow new connections over time.

The used during anti-wrinkle treatments are both directly into the muscle (intramuscular) and into the area between the skin and the muscle (subcutaneous). These injections are felt as tiny pin pricks.

Each session will be different, depending on the treatment that has been agreed; however, an session could involve about five injections either side of the forehead and maybe three injections around each eye.

is to most clinics as dry powder. This is often in the form of 50 or 100 unit vials. The powdered substance is then diluted appropriately with saline solution.

It should be noted that it is the total number of units received, rather than the volume of BOTOX solution, that should be considered when working out how much BOTOX you are receiving.

Practitioners will vary on how much they dilute their BOTOX.

Many patients often worry about the that Botox practitioners use. Some fear that they will be large and will cause significant . But this couldn’t be from the truth. used medically fine that are in to those that Type 1 use every day when they inject . These ultra-fine needles ensure expert precision while guaranteeing that pain and bruising will be minimised in the .

The doses

The amount of Botulinum Toxin that is injected during each visit will vary from person to person. The number of doses delivered is to:

After the Botox injection

BOTOX injections take only a few minutes, with the session less than a standard lunch break.

Before you leave the clinic you will be advised to avoid lying down for around 4 hours and to refrain from any exercise or that is over strenuous for the rest of the day. Other aftercare advice includes not booking a facial or beauty for at least 1 week. our blog for the complete list of and tips on after Botox care.

What happens next?

BOTOX normally begins to affect the way facial muscles relax after about 3 days. You should begin to see noticeable changes in the of your skin within a week. The full of BOTOX won’t be seen until 2 weeks after .

Once the have worn off, it is perfectly safe to arrange for further Botox top-up treatments, usually after 3-4 months.

If you have any about how BOTOX is administered, or anything else to non-invasive treatments, please us by phoning  or out a .

How to find our clinics?

The Cosmetic Skin Clinic in London is located in Harley Street and within distance of Baker Street, Oxford Circus and Bond Street tube stations. We’re also conveniently and just a quick train ride away from or Kings Cross St Pancras Train .

The Skin Clinic in Buckinghamshire is situated in Stoke Poges and near Cross ( Railway) and Slough’s (First Great Western) station. If you’re by car, the M25, M4, M40 and A40 roads, makes it very convenient to reach from upon Thames, Wembley, Richmond, and from the Surrey area.

The Cosmetic Skin Clinic Bournemouth is situated in the centre of Bournemouth, the golden strand of the South Coast. Our location is a stone’s throw away from beaches and a short drive from Sandbanks, home to ?? Row’.

The Cosmetic Skin Clinic Northampton is in a charming period building called The Gatehouse within St Andrew’s Hospital grounds on the of Northampton city centre where we are with our surgical sister clinic – , providing a peaceful and for your skin or .

The Skin Clinic Lymington can be found in a mews on Street, .

The Skin Clinic Kent is located within Barham Court, a country house in the of Teston, Maidstone.

For more about and the best way to reach us based on your means of transportation, please take a look at our clinic pages.

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