Forehead Lines

Botox

The muscle that lifts your eyebrows is the same muscle that causes wrinkling in the forehead. This muscle is called the frontalis muscle and covers the whole of your forehead. It is a wide thin muscle.

This is a very easy muscle to give Botox anti-wrinkle injections to as it is superficial and each injection only requires a low dose. However, because it is a wide muscle it requires a number of these injections, normally around 9. I do these very gently and the patients I treat do not find these injections uncomfortable.

However, it must be remembered that the function of the forehead muscle is to raise the eyebrows. So, here is a word of caution, if the person administering the Botox goes too close to the eyebrows then the eyebrows can drop or feel heavy. The way to stop this happening is to still leave some muscle activity just above the eyebrows by not putting any Botox close to the eyebrows. In other words, there is a compromise, once the Botox anti-wrinkle injections have started to work, you will have a smoother forehead but still some activity just above the eyebrows.

There is also the situation where the Botox is not given in relation to the individual persons muscularly activity and leaves a peak in the middle of the eyebrow when raised (known in the trade as the Spock effect), this looks unnatural. I know how to avoid this from happening.

It must be remembered that if you have forehead lines that are present when you are relaxed, Botox will not immediately improve these static wrinkles but will dramatically improve the wrinkles that appear on active movement. The lines on the forehead that are present even when you are not raising your eyebrows will improve overtime providing you have top ups when your Botox begins to wear off.