How BOTOX® Is Injected

Arriving at the clinic

The clinic will check you in and give you any documentation to read that is relating to the procedure. The consultation with your treating practitioner would have covered all of this information before.

Consenting to your Botox treatment

Once inside the treatment room, the practitioner will recap on the treatment to make sure you are clear about the procedure and answer any further questions you may have. A form will then be signed.

Preparing the face for treatment

Your practitioner will then ask you to make a series of facial . Some practitioners mark the areas on your face that will be into; some do not. It is an individual preference.

At this point, the sites of the injections will be cleaned using a non-alcoholic cleanser.

BOTOX do not normally require the use of an anaesthetic (this comes in the form of a cream, which is smoothed into the area of the skin to be injected) as the needles are so small and the injections are administered very quickly.

How is Botox administered?

Your practitioner will have a knowledge of the face, the skin’s thickness and the type of muscle to be found at different sites in the face. They will use this knowledge to judge the location of the muscle into which the Botox injection will go and the depth to which the needle must be inserted.

How deep is Botox injected?

One of the most common mistakes that untrained practitioners do is not injecting Botox deeply enough or injecting it too superficially. Botox must be injected into the superficial layers of the skin in some areas, while in others, it needs to be injected deeply. One example is the masseter muscle near the mouth. If a practitioner doesn’t inject this muscle deeply enough, patients can end up with an uneven or unbalanced OnabotulinumtoxinAAbobotulinumtoxinAIncobotulinumtoxinAPrabotulinumtoxinALetibotulinumtoxinARimabotulinumtoxinBHyaluronic Acid FillersCalcium Hydroxylapatite FillersPoly-L-lactic Acid FillersPolymethylmethacrylate FillersAutologous Fat GraftingForehead Lines TreatmentGlabellar Frown Lines TreatmentCrow's Feet TreatmentBunny Lines TreatmentChemical Brow LiftLip FlipGummy Smile CorrectionMasseter ReductionJaw SlimmingDimpled Chin SmoothingCobblestone Chin SmoothingNefertiti Neck LiftMicro-BotoxMesotoxHyperhidrosis TreatmentChronic Migraine ReliefBruxism TreatmentTMJ TreatmentCervical Dystonia TreatmentNeck Spasm TreatmentBlepharospasm TreatmentLip AugmentationLip ContouringCheekbone EnhancementTear Trough FillersNasolabial Fold SofteningMarionette Line FillersLiquid RhinoplastyNon-Surgical Nose JobJawline ContouringJawline DefinitionChin AugmentationTemple VolumisingHand RejuvenationAcne Scar Subcision Filling. This is why it is so important to choose a clinic with excellent safety standards and trained staff that will know how deep should botox be injected.

BOTOX relaxes by attaching itself to nerve endings that are connected to the muscles in question. This blocks the transmission of chemicals that send their specific messages to muscles from the brain telling them to move. When this message is blocked, muscles in the face will not crease up, and the skin on the surface will remain smooth, not wrinkled.

Because Botulinum Toxin is injected directly into the muscle, nearby areas do not have the nerve-blocking effects. Treatment is not long-lasting as nerves will grow new connections over time.

The injections used during anti-wrinkle treatments are administered both directly into the muscle (intramuscular) and into the area between the skin and the muscle (subcutaneous). These are felt as tiny pin pricks.

Each session will be different, on the treatment that has been agreed; however, an average session could about five injections either side of the forehead and maybe three injections around each eye.

is delivered to most clinics as dry powder. This is often in the form of 50 or 100 unit vials. The powdered substance is then diluted appropriately with saline solution.

It should be noted that it is the total number of units received, rather than the volume of BOTOX solution, that should be considered when working out how much BOTOX you are receiving.

Practitioners will vary on how much they dilute their BOTOX.

Many patients often worry about the needles that Botox practitioners use. Some fear that they will be large and will cause discomfort. But this couldn’t be further from the truth. used medically approved fine needles that are in thickness to those that Type 1 diabetics use every day when they inject themselves. These ultra-fine needles ensure expert precision while guaranteeing that pain and bruising will be minimised in the injection process.

The doses

The amount of Botulinum Toxin that is injected during each visit will vary from person to person. The number of doses delivered is tailored according to:

After the Botox injection

BOTOX injections typically take only a few minutes, with the lasting less than a standard lunch break.

Before you leave the clinic you will be advised to avoid lying down for around 4 hours and to from any exercise or activity that is over strenuous for the rest of the day. Other aftercare advice includes not booking a facial or similar beauty treatment for at least 1 week. Explore our blog for the complete list of questions and tips on after Botox care.

What happens next?

BOTOX normally begins to affect the way facial muscles relax after about 3 days. You should begin to see changes in the smoothness of your skin within a week. The full effects of BOTOX won’t be seen until 2 weeks after treatment.

Once the effects have worn off, it is perfectly safe to arrange for further Botox top-up treatments, usually after 3-4 months.

If you have any questions about how BOTOX is administered, or anything else relating to non-invasive cosmetic treatments, please contact us by phoning  or filling out a .

How to find our clinics?

The Cosmetic Skin Clinic in London is located in Harley Street and within walking distance of Baker Street, Oxford Circus and Bond Street tube stations. We’re also conveniently located and just a quick train ride away from Paddington or Kings Cross St Pancras Train Stations.

The Cosmetic Skin Clinic in Buckinghamshire is in Stoke Poges and near Gerrards Cross ( Railway) and Slough’s (First Great Western) station. If you’re travelling by car, the M25, M4, M40 and A40 roads, makes it very convenient to reach from Kingston upon Thames, Wembley, Richmond, and from the Surrey area.

The Cosmetic Skin Clinic Bournemouth is situated in the centre of Bournemouth, the golden strand of the South Coast. Our Bournemouth location is a stone’s throw away from award-winning beaches and a short drive from luxurious Sandbanks, home to