Botox, the world's hottest injectable cosmetic treatment, works by providing a short-lived muscle paralyzing effect reducing or eliminating unwanted facial expressions. The overwhelming majority of Botox used for this purpose is completed within the forehead and around the eyes. within the masseter muscle, however, repeated Botox injections over time can reduce the dimensions of this massive muscle improving the external appearance and reducing muscle-clenching pain symptoms.

 

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The use of Botox for masseter muscle reduction is well chronicled within the Korean medical journals. during this ethnos, it's often desired to scale back the dimensions of the muscles for the cosmetic purpose of creating the face look less square. Botox done over time is so effective that the surgery historically wont to achieve an equivalent effect, masseter muscle reduction, and mandibular angle reduction, is now reserved just for patients that demonstrate an actual bony prominence because of the primary source of the matter.

 

Botox injections within the masseter muscle are easy to try to to. Have the patient clench their teeth together and therefore the prominent bulging of the masseter muscle borders is easily seen. I usually inject right into the prominent bulging areas with 6 units per bulged area and stay closer to the angle areas of the jaw and its lower border to avoid injecting into the salivary gland. I even have found that it takes about 25 - 35 units per side to urge an honest effect. So once I run out of bulging areas to inject, I will be able to confirm I inject at the front and back of the muscle at rock bottom

 

While effects are often usually been fairly quick, as judged by less muscle pain and headaches, it takes about 6 months before the visible shrinking of the muscle is seen. Botox injections should be repeated every 4 months up to a year's worth of treatment to ascertain the simplest results. I even have been surprised to ascertain that the results of masseter muscle reduction seem to be maintained albeit no further Botox injections are done. I do not have an honest physiologic explanation on why that might be so, as Botox doesn't cause any permanent atrophy within the muscles of countenance. But I even have seen it enough now to understand that it's a real clinical finding with Botox use.