The key is to balance the forces between the forehead elevators and depressors. Typically, a “Spock Brow” is due to overtreating depressors and/or undertreating elevators in the outer half of the forehead. It can be corrected by placing a small amount of Botox into the elevators in the outer forehead.
Physicians and nurses can avoid the Spock look by balancing the forces between the elevators and the depressors. This is accomplished by placing a small amount of Botox in the outer forehead.
Answer: Spock Eyes after Botox
In the event there's a Spock eyebrow on one or both sides, this can be easily corrected with a few touch up units of Botox to the lateral forehead muscles on the affected side(s). Your original injector should be able to do this for you.
Spock brows happen when Botox is injected only at the central part of the upper forehead, leaving the sides untouched. When the central forehead is weakened and the outer sides remain active, it causes the central brow to drop and the outer brow to appear like it's lifted too high. The result: Spock brows.
A few units, probably no more than 4, will be injected in the frontalis muscle laterally, above the arched brow, to stop it from compensating and being overactive.
Spocking is easy to fix. Simply place one unit of anti-wrinkle injection in the outer forehead to stop the area moving so much and this will reduce the spocking look. It takes about 5 days after correction of spocking to see the effect settle.
Getting a “Dr Spock” eyebrow, or an overly raised or arched eyebrow, is not an uncommon occurrence following anti-wrinkle injections to the forehead. It happens when the injections are not placed laterally enough.
If at two weeks your eyebrows are still peaked, a small amount of Botox (1-2 units per side) can be placed in the outer eyebrows. This will correct the peaked appearance. Again, you will need to wait another two weeks to see the full results, but many people will notice improvement in a few days. Dr.
Up till now, there is no known antidote for Botox! Which means that there is no fast way to dissolve Botox of reverse its symptoms. Time is the only thing that is going to help Botox go away. The good news though is that sometimes there are few ways to help correct some of the complications that happen with Botox.
Smoking, vaping, and anything with nicotine causes your collagen to break down, damages your skin cells, and reduces the effectiveness of your Botox injections.
Typically, a “Spock Brow” is due to overtreating depressors and/or undertreating elevators in the outer half of the forehead. It can be corrected by placing a small amount of Botox into the elevators in the outer forehead.
When Botox is applied to problem areas around the eyebrows, the muscles relax and the skin on top of them becomes smoother. The muscles around the eyebrows are pulled upwards, elevating the eyebrows and making a patient's eyes appear more open.
Spocking occurs when antiwrinkle product is concentrated too centrally, leaving the outer aspects of the elevator muscle of the forehead (the frontalis) completely active. This results in no movement in the mid forehead, but overactivity in the outer aspects, hence causing a raised 'spocked' brow.
A question we're often asked is can you treat the frontalis muscle on its own. Without the others areas which are the glabella and the obicularis oculi. Generally we advise against this because of the slightly heavy brow caused. Although, you can just treat the glabella and the crows feet area by themselves.
Unfortunately there's no antidote to (counteract Botox). Eyebrow drop is so annoying to patients but thankfully the effects of Botox are not permanent.
The result will last 3 to 4 months. Unfortunately, massaging will not effect or speed up this process.
For others, facial massage encourages facial muscles to eliminate Botox more quickly. Replacing Botox with the natural technique of facial massage is beneficial for both our facial skin, muscle tension and definition!
The muscle that usually elevates the brows relaxes while the muscle that lowers them remains active with Botox treatment. As a result, a patient will feel a heavy forehead or brow, and their position may appear downwards. It can also cause hooded eyes or eyelids.
Specifically, injections on the forehead or between the eyes may spread into the eyebrows and cause the brow to lower, causing a droopy eyelid. In most cases, droopy eyelid occurs between one and three weeks after treatment, and patients typically experience this adverse effect for just a few weeks. According to Dr.
Spock. As the rest of the forehead becomes more affected by the Botox injections in the first two weeks, the Spock eyebrow can settle down. I do encourage my patients to wait a week and a half to two weeks before adjusting a Spock eyebrow to see if it improves.
Botox onset is 5 to 7 days. Botox peaks at 10 to 14 days.
The evil, peaked appearance of your brow following Botox is due to your unique distribution and weave. After allowing the full onset of Botox, at 10-14 days, return to your injector for a easy “tweak” of Botox into the frontalis muscle just over the peak and the arch will gently round-out.
Yes, Botox can cause droopy eyelids if it is injected in the wrong place or if too much is used. Because Botox is a muscle relaxing toxin, if it is injected into the muscles that hold the eyelids or eyebrows up, then this can cause the muscles that pull the eyelids down to be more emphasised.