BOTOX®

The lines that appear between your brows (glabellar lines) actually result from muscle movement and the passage of time. You may have heard the expression "wearing your emotions on your sleeve," but in reality you wear them on your face. If you're angry or annoyed, for example, you knit your brows together. Underneath your skin, your facial muscles contract, cause a pleating of the overlying skin, and then, as anyone can see, you're frowning.

After years of crinkling and wrinkling, those glabellar lines start to linger longer and can become more pronounced. For women, whose faces tend to be more animated than men's, and whose skin is typically more delicate, these lines may appear exaggerated and more permanent.

Fortunately, there is a way to temporarily reduce moderate to severe glabellar lines. Treatment with BOTOX® Cosmetic can visibly smooth and soften moderate to severe frown lines between your brows. An improvement can be seen within days and may last up to 4 months, although results may vary. In clinical trials, nearly 90% of men and women surveyed rated the improvement in the appearance of frown lines between their brows as moderate to better 1 month after treatment.

After treatment with BOTOX® Cosmetic, you may look in the mirror and see a marked improvement in the moderate to severe frown lines between your brows. But BOTOX® Cosmetic will not radically change your facial appearance. You can still frown or look surprised—without the wrinkles and creases between your brows.

BOTOX® Cosmetic works by temporarily reducing the contractions of the muscles that cause those persistent frown lines that have developed between your brows over time. If you do not continue treatments, the frown lines between your brows will gradually look like they did before treatment.

BOTOX® Cosmetic also is excellent for reducing the horizontal lines across your forehead that give your face a corrugated appearance, as well as the crows feet around your eyes that can prematurely age you. Although these areas are off label use, millions of treatments in these areas as well as a large body of medical studies point to the safety and efficacy of BOTOX® treatment in these areas.

BOTOX® and Dermal Fillers available at American Laser Center locations in Arizona, Florida (Aventura, Fort Lauderdale and Miami Beach), Georgia (Buckhead, Marietta and Duluth), Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota (Minneapolis), New York City, Utah and Washington State. Please call for details.