Do You Feel Hooded or Heavy Over Your Eyes?

Are you worried that your face has changed too much due to botox treatments? Do you have feelings of heaviness or hooding over the eyes? In this blog post, we'll discuss the possibilities of developing heavy eyelids or a hooded effect over the eyes due to botox injections and why understanding these possibilities helps inform decisions about when and how often in-clinic treatments should be done.

So let's get started by diving deeper into discussing just what situations can cause hooded or heavy eyelids after getting Botox!

What is botox and what can it do for you?

Botox is an injectable derived from the botulinum toxin and has been popularly used in recent years as a way to reduce the appearance of wrinkles and fine lines for a more youthful look. It can also be used to treat excessive sweating, muscle spasms, chronic migraine, neck and jaw tension. In the Lethbridge and area, Botox injections are commonly offered by many medical professionals to help reduce wrinkles and improve overall skin texture. Aside from aesthetics, Botox can also be used for therapeutic reasons with successful outcomes for those who receive it. By targeting overactive muscles around the forehead and eyes, patients often report migraines being reduced or even eliminated altogether.

Feeling heavy over the eyebrows?

Botox, although an effective treatment for wrinkles, needs to be applied with a great deal of consideration. If the forehead dose of Botox is not properly done, the eyebrows can have difficulty lifting; this is because the only lifter of the brows is the frontalis muscle which, in some people, needs to be functioning at its full capacity. To address this issue, it's important to weaken the muscles that pull the brow down rather than attempt to fill deep forehead creases with Botox as inexperienced injectors may do. Doing so can cause aesthetic problems for patients who end up with no forehead wrinkles but significantly lowered brows.

Different techniques are used by nurse injectors to achieve desired results…

Nurse injectors are highly skilled professionals who specialize in the use of Botox to achieve the desired results for their patients. By employing a variety of techniques, nurse injectors are able to personalize each treatment for their clients and maximize results. These techniques include adjusting the amount of toxin used, changing the depth of injections, selecting specific locations on the face where treatments can be applied, and making sure that doses are spread out over multiple sessions in order to ensure long-term effects.

Botox, although an effective treatment for wrinkles, needs to be applied with a great deal of consideration. If the forehead dose of Botox is not properly done, the eyebrows can have difficulty lifting; this is because the only lifter of the brows is the frontalis muscle which, in some people, needs to be functioning at its full capacity. To address this issue, it's important to weaken the muscles that pull the brow down rather than attempt to fill deep forehead creases with Botox, as some inexperienced injectors may do. Doing this can cause aesthetic problems for patients who end up with no forehead wrinkles but significantly lowered brows.

This is why it’s SO important to be treated by an experienced injector, like Ali at CMC Medical Aesthetics!

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