No more scowling! What you can do.

The no scowling allowed zone!

Scottsdale – Do you sometimes walk by a mirror and catch yourself scowling? It happens to all of us. Those wrinkles that form between the eyebrows, can be tough to reduce. There are a few ways of reducing the frown lines that I am going to blog about today.

Before we get to that, let’s talk about what causes these lines to form?

The lines actually result from the repetitive motion of the skin in the frown area. The muscles underneath, called the glabellar muscles, cause the skin to move and wrinkle up the way it does. If you look carefully, you will notice three set of lines in most people. There is a horizontal line that occurs most often at the bridge of the nose. Then there is the two vertical lines just inside the eyebrows. The more times the skin moves through these motions, the greater the number and the more pronounced the lines become.

Therefore, the older you get, then deeper and more noticeable the lines become.

It is a good idea to reduce the number of times the lines are made by weakening these muscles using one of two techniques.

Botox is the best way to do this if you don’t want surgery. Botulinum Type-A has been shown to be safe and effective in reducing the lines in the frown area, and it’s FDA-approved. Botox works great to prevent and reduce, and perhaps, even to temporarily erase the milder lines.

If you have well-formed lines that are fairly deep and stable, Botox still works to reduce these lines. Some people may also require a filler injection into the really deep creases and lines for better results. An examination by a board certified plastic surgeon, can let you know what you need for your specific case.

A more permanent reduction in these lines can be obtained with surgical techniques. This procedure is called a glabellar muscle reduction, and involves removal of part of the muscle body of each one of the three muscles that cause these lines to form. Removing this portion of the muscle more permanently weakens it so it cannot pull the skin and cause the wrinkles to form. Occasionally, we see the muscle ends reattach and after some time the patient can frown again. I normally replace the muscle body that is removed with a small piece of fat, from the patient, for this reason. With the fat spanning the space between the two muscle heads, then it cannot reattach. The fat helps to keep the normal shape to the frown area and prevents any depressions.

What is nice about glabellar muscle reduction in Scottsdale, is that it can be performed through a standard forehead lift, a mini forehead lit, and endoscopic forehead lift and through an upper eyelid lift incision. With so many options, patients can have the freedom to choose the operation that best suits their needs (model used in illustration).

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