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Popular spots to get Botox include the “crow’s-feet” lines on the outside corners of your eyes, between the eyebrows (where “11 lines” can form), and the forehead.
The folds between your eyebrows that show up when you furrow your brow are called frown lines — or “elevens” because they make two vertical lines. You might also see wrinkles under your eyes ...
A Botox brow lift can give your eyebrows a slightly higher appearance—anywhere from 1 to 3 mm in height, to be exact—without the high price tag and downtime of a surgical brow lift.
The FDA announced regulatory approval of botulinum toxin type A (Botox Cosmetic) to temporarily improve the appearance of moderate-to-severe frown lines between the eyebrows (glabellar lines) in 2002 after extensive clinical trials. [156] Well before this, the cosmetic use of botulinum toxin type A became widespread. [157]
Botox is a specific form of botulinum toxin manufactured by Allergan for both therapeutic and cosmetic use. Besides its cosmetic application, Botox is used in the treatment of other conditions including migraine headache and cervical dystonia (spasmodic torticollis ) (a neuromuscular disorder involving the head and neck).
Botulinum toxin could be used to relax the corrugator and procerus muscles, orbicularis oculi, and the frontalis muscle to relieve glabellar lines (frown lines), lateral canthal lines (Crow's feet) and forehead lines respectively. [21] Face lift (Rhytidectomy) with temporal incision behind the hairline.
Research shows young people are increasingly open to noninvasive aesthetic treatments and plastic surgery. One writer explores the prejuvenation movment.
Photorejuvenation is a skin treatment that uses lasers, intense pulsed light, or photodynamic therapy to treat skin conditions and remove effects of photoaging such as wrinkles, spots, and textures. The process induces controlled wounds to the skin. This prompts the skin to heal itself, by creating new cells.