Skin Rejuvenation
Botox / Dysport
Neuromodulator treatment, dosed conservatively
When performed by our certified and experienced clinical injectors, cosmetic injections can be one of the simplest and most effective ways to take years off your appearance.
Who this is for
Often right for
- Horizontal forehead lines and frown lines between the brows
- Crow’s feet at the outer eye
- A gummy smile, chin dimpling or platysmal neck bands
- Jaw clenching and bruxism, where the masseter is involved
- Excessive underarm sweating
- Prevention in your late twenties and thirties, where lines are forming but not yet etched
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What to expect
Your Botox / Dysport visit
Movement assessment
We watch your face move — at rest, animated and in a mirror with you — and photograph it. Brow position and eyelid heaviness are checked before dosing, because a low brow changes the plan entirely.
Agreeing the result
We will ask how much movement you want to keep. That answer sets the dose, and it is a genuine question rather than a formality.
Treatment
A series of small injections with a very fine needle. Most people find it a sharp pinch rather than painful, and it takes a few minutes.
Two-week review
We assess the settled result and add small amounts if needed. Refinement upward is easy; there is no undoing an overdose, which is why we start low.
The science
Why it works
Botulinum toxin type A — sold as Botox and Dysport — temporarily reduces the signal between nerve and muscle. Where a line is being folded into the skin thousands of times a day by a muscle underneath it, quieting that muscle lets the skin above it settle. This is why it works well on the forehead, between the brows and around the eyes, and why it does very little for lines caused by sun damage or volume loss.
The difference between a good result and an obvious one is almost entirely dosing and placement. We map your movement before anything is drawn up, because faces are asymmetric and treating them as though they are symmetric is how people end up with a heavy brow or a frozen upper third. Our default is to under-treat on a first visit and refine at your two-week review rather than to chase a maximal result immediately.
Dysport tends to spread slightly more from each injection point and often shows a little sooner; Botox is marginally more precise for small, well-defined targets. In practice the choice matters far less than who is holding the syringe, and we will tell you honestly which we think suits your pattern of movement.
At a glance
- Appointment
- 30 minutes, including assessment
- Discomfort
- Brief — a fine needle, no anaesthetic needed
- Downtime
- None; avoid exercise and lying flat for 4 hours
- Onset
- Begins at 3–5 days, settles by 2 weeks
- Duration
- Typically 3–4 months
- Review
- Included at 2 weeks for any refinement
Questions
Botox / Dysport questions
- Not if we dose you properly. A frozen upper face is the signature of a heavy hand, not of the drug. We aim for softened lines with retained movement, and we would rather you came back at two weeks wanting slightly more than leave with too much.
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