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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 usually 2-3 small injections into the desired muscles. 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.
Lip Flip
Many patients feel that their upper lip ‘disappears’ when they go into a full smile or laugh. In these patients, the muscle around their mouth which controls the lip contracts heavily, causing the upper lip to curl in on expression.
In those who dislike this, we can place small amount of neuromodulator into the affected muscles to relax it and therefore giving more upper lip show when you smile/ laugh.
This will not give volume or change the shape of your lip in the way that lip filler does but is simply to increase the amount of lip show on expression.
This treatment can be done as a standalone or you can also do this alongside lip filler if you would like to have more volume in your lips at rest and on expression. The patient on the left had no filler done, but only a lip flip.
