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The appointment takes around 30 minutes, with the injections taking only 5 minutes.
The results from the botox take a few days to start to show, with full results in 2 weeks. Botox in this area generally lasts around 3-4 months on average, after which time, the muscles simply resume their normal activity.
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After assessment, we place small injections into the desired muscle. These are a tiny bit uncomfortable but generally totally fine. No numbing is needed!
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There is no downtime whatsoever with botox! You may have small raised blebs on the surface of your skin initially, but these go on their own within 30-60 minutes.
After treatment, we advise you to stay upright for 4-6 hours so that the botox doesn’t move and not to have any facials/ facial massage for at least 2 weeks.
Dimpled Chin
In some patients, when your chin naturally sits further back, in order to create a lip seal (i.e. to close your mouth at rest), our mentalis (chin) muscle is under a lot of tension. This is visible as dimpling on our chin centrally when we close our mouth.
Placement of a small amount of neuromodulator into our mentalis muscle can relax this muscle and therefore give the overlying skin a smoother and less dimpled appearance.
This is often combined for best results with chin filler to both balance the side profile and improve ability to create a lip seal as well as reduce the dimpling aesthetically.
