Anti-Wrinkle Injections

Since dermal injection procedures have been refined over many years, you no longer need to worry about an obvious “frozen face” look. Fills applied by an experienced professional will look completely invisible. The best injections give subtle results that enhance your natural features.

Dysport doesn’t just treat your existing wrinkles — it also helps prevent new ones from forming. In fact, many dermatologists recommend starting treatment younger than you think you need to. If you start early, your wrinkles won’t have a chance to form, because the muscles that usually cause them will be relaxed. It’s much easier to prevent wrinkles now than to try to fix them later.

With Dysport, you don’t even need to take a day off. There’s virtually no recovery time needed from this procedure, since it’s minimally invasive. You won’t have any incisions or stitches, which means no scarring and no marks. You can get injections done on your lunch break and get right back to work. Any visible side effects will be very small and temporary.

The results of your Dysport injections last for months at a time, so you won’t need to get frequent reapplications. In fact, Dysport actually lasts longer than Botox®. You’ll see the results within a week after treatment, and they’ll last as long as three to five months.

Botulinum Toxin is a quick and safe procedure that has very little impact on usual activity on the day of injection. We deliver tiny injections to relax the action of the muscles that create excessive movement. These movements create ‘dynamic wrinkles’ over time. Here’s what not to do after Botox® – we recommend the following precautions to allow the anti-wrinkle injections to work optimally in the targeted muscles:

• No rubbing or massaging of the injected area for 4 hours after treatment, including facials.
• No strenuous exercise for 24 hours after treatment.
• Keep upright for 4 hours — no lying on your front.
• Avoid headwear that is tightly fitted across the forehead.
• Reduce excessive alcohol consumption or medically necessary blood-thinning medication before the treatment to prevent bruising.

Patients can resume normal daily activities immediately following treatment. Light exercise after Botox® can be performed after 4 hours but it is recommended that strenuous activities are avoided for 24 hours.

After 4 hours you may perform light exercise such as:

• Walking
• Jogging
• Upright yoga (avoid any positions that leave you lying flat or upside down)

Gardening

It is recommended that you wait 24 hours before attempting any strenuous exercise after Botox®, including:

• Weight training
• Cross-training
• Long-distance running
• Yoga (positions where the body is inverted)

In most cases, there will be no side effects to treatment of BOTOX®. However, because everybody’s physiology is different, people can be affected in different ways. A small minority of people reported the following side effects.

Bruising: For the majority of patients, the area of injection will appear no different. For a small minority, some minor bruising may occur.

Bumps: A few minutes after treatment small bumps may be visible on the skin. These will disappear very quickly.

Headache: True BOTOX® allergies are exceedingly rare. Temporary headache is the most commonly reported symptom following anti-ageing injectables, though the numbers of patients who report headaches is very small compared with the number of treatments performed. Any headache can be treated with usual painkillers.

We advise limiting alcohol in the first 24 hours and for the day prior to treatment. This is because alcohol can thin the blood much like an aspirin, and abstaining can help prevent bruising.