You stress. You squint. You concentrate. And over time those expressions leave their mark on your face making you look older, tired and stressed. But now there are anti-wrinkle injection treatments. This is a simple, non-surgical procedure that can dramatically reduce even your toughest wrinkles within days. So it’s really up to you. You can choose to live with wrinkles or you can choose to live without them!

WHAT ARE WRINKLE INJECTION TREATMENTS?

Wrinkle injection treatments or “anti-wrinkle facial injections” involve the use of a natural, purified protein that relaxes wrinkle-causing muscles creating a smoothed, rejuvenated and more youthful appearance. It’s a simple non-surgical procedure that smoothens the deep, persistent facial lines that develop over time. One ten minute treatment – a few tiny injections – relaxes the muscles that cause those lines to form and keeps them relaxed for over four months.    Similarly, these anti-wrinkle treatments have been widely used for the treatment of excessive sweating (i.e. hyperhidrosis treatments) of the underarms, palms of hands, feet and face.

HOW WRINKLE INJECTION TREATMENTS WORK

Many facial wrinkles occur when we make repeated facial expressions. The wrinkle injections relax the tiny facial muscles that cause expression lines, leaving the overlying skin smooth and unwrinkled. Once the muscle is relaxed, you cannot contract it and continue to make the undesirable facial expression. Thus the lines gradually smooth out from disuse, and new creases are prevented from forming.

Wrinkle treatment injections work on the specific areas treated. Other muscles like those used to raise the eyebrows are not affected so a natural expression is maintained. It will not “freeze” your facial expressions – it softens them and works where you want it to work.

WHAT TO EXPECT FROM THE WRINKLE TREATMENTS

The procedure involves a doctor or registered nurse injecting tiny amounts of a purified protein into selected facial muscles by using a very fine needle. Discomfort is very minimal and brief. Most people resume normal activities immediately. After injection, it takes 2-3 days for the injections to begin taking effect and around 7-10 days to see the full result.

The procedure may last over four months, depending on the individual. You can decide to repeat the procedure as you wish. The result will wear off gradually and expression lines slowly return. To maintain the effect you will require repeat injections 3-4 times a year. Studies show that with repeat treatments, the effect can last longer so you may require less frequent treatment in the future to maintain the result you have come to like.

In the amounts used for wrinkly therapy, side effects rare, temporary and localized to the area of injection. These include mild tenderness, soreness, mild bruising (which can be easily covered with makeup), headache and less commonly, you may develop a heavy eyelid lasting 1-4 weeks. There have been no permanent side effects of anti-wrinkle injection treatments reported.

APPLICATIONS OF WRINKLE INJECTIONS

Wrinkle Injections are widely used in the following regions:

• Frown Lines (Glabella)
• Forehead Lines
• Crows Feet
• Brow Lifts
• Bunny Lines
• Lip lines
• Chin Puckering
• Neck Platysmal Bands
• Jawline Shaping
• Asian Face Contouring
• Underarm Hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating)
• Migraines

Wrinkle Reduction

Anti-wrinkle injections are administered by a doctor or registered nurse as a simple, non-surgical treatment – the muscle relaxant is injected directly into the wrinkle causing muscles between the eyes, forehead or crows feet. It works by blocking nerve impulses to the injected muscles. This reduces muscle activity that causes moderate to severe lines to form, giving a refreshed, younger looking you!

Brow Lifts

Those seeking a quick and easy improvement in the overall look of their droopy brows can choose injectables – normally used for wrinkle treatments, with the added benefit of brow lifting. By injecting anti-wrinkle injections into the muscles that pull the eyebrows down, the muscles are weakened, and the eyebrows are lifted. The goal is to retrain the muscles to reshape the brow over time. Dermal Fillers can also help in the eyebrow to lift the tail of the brow. These are non-invasive procedures and can be refined over time as the patient ages. 

Neck Platysmal Bands

In the neck, a muscle called the platysma can become more prominent with ageing, giving the unwanted appearance of platysmal bands over time.  These bands can contribute to the “turkey neck” phenomenon that many women experience as they get older.  Platysmal bands wrinkle injections can be directly injected in order to relax the muscles and soften the prominent bands of the neck.  This allows the skin to lay tighter against the chin and neck, which gives a more youthful appearance.  

The injection treatments to the platysmal bands may performed at the same time as Thermage FLX skin tightening treatments, or Aptos Thread Neck Lifts, which tightens and lifts the overlying skin of the neck and jowls.  The combination of relaxing the bands of the neck and tightening the overlying skin leads to a dramatic anti-aging improvement, without any surgery or downtime.

Asian Face Contouring

The non-surgical possibilities of reshaping the Asian face to look more European are endless. The demand is on the increase, and the non surgical treatments offer excellent results.  

What can we change and how?  Here is an easy to follow guide:

1. Reshaping Nose

The nose can be made bigger, more striking, thinner from the front, straighter and for it to have more shape. The Asian nose is usually very small, with no significant shape and it always has the appearance of somehow “sinking” between the eyes. We can achieve this transformation from an Asian to a European nose with a 10 minute dermal filler procedure or threads augmentation, resulting in a real wow-factor. By simply injecting dermal filler in the Asian nose, the magical transformation is very quick, painless and the results are  amazing. A small, wide, flat nose, can be transformed easily into a thin, straight, more striking European nose.

2. Masseter Muscle Injections

This is a very commonly asked for procedure by Asian patients. This procedure narrows the face to make it look more “European”.  It only takes a few muscle relaxant injections into the chewing masseter muscles (also a great treatment for patients who grind their teeth), and between 7 – 10 days later, when the results kick in (due to the resulting inactivity of these muscles the muscles become smaller therefore making the face look more narrow).

3. Opening eyes & making them rounder

Without reverting to the scalpel and eyelid surgery, Asian eye rejuvenation delivers excellent results.  This is done by using dermal fillers and muscle relaxant injections. By carefully targeting certain muscles like the procerus and corrugator muscles, we can make other muscles more powerful and raise the eyebrows, giving the eyes a more rounder look. Dermal fillers, additionally injected in the eyebrows enhance this result.

4. Increasing size of jawline or chin

With careful injections of the thicker dermal fillers, the smaller Asian face may easily be reshaped. The Chinese, Japanese, Thai or Korean lower face don’t have a significant contour, and the chin is often small and retracted. In this quick, 15 minute procedure, the thicker, longer lasting dermal filler can be injected through a needle or a cannula, and the chin and jawline can be increased in size and shaped very accurately with excellent lasting results.

5.  Shaping high cheeks

Cheeks, which are often seen in Europe and especially in Eastern European countries such as Russia, are very popular amongst the Asian clients.  With injection of the thicker longer lasting dermal fillers such as it is possible to sculpt beautiful high cheek bones, giving the whole face a much more striking, more elegant look.