THE MOST FREQUENTLY ASKEDQUESTIONS ABOUT ANTI-WRINKLE INJECTION WITH MUSCLE RELAXANT

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A MUSCLE RELAXANT AND A FILLER?

• With both a filler and a muscle relaxant, a substance is injected under the skin ('injectables'). In both cases, the result is temporary.

• With a filler, this substance serves to fill something up e.g. the nose-lip fold, drooping corners of the mouth,... A filler can also be used to enlarge lips or perform a non-surgical (temporary) rhinoplasty. Click here for further information about fillers.

• With a wrinkle injection, the injected substance serves to (temporarily) weaken certain muscles, e.g. to soften the frown wrinkle between the eyes, or the crow's feet,.... so not to fill anything up.

CAN A WRINKLE RELAXING INJECTION ELIMINATE ALL WRINKLES?

• If a muscle relaxant is used to treat superficial wrinkles, they often disappear completely.

• If the wrinkles are deep and permanent (static wrinkles at rest), then other treatments such as fillers will be needed to make the wrinkles disappear. This may be the case if you start with muscle relaxants at an older age.

CAN IT PREVENT NEW WRINKLES?

• If you start regular treatments with muscle relaxants in time, before the permanent, static wrinkles appear, you will postpone and possibly prevent the formation of wrinkles, so that you maintain your youthful appearance.

• It will relax the muscles that cause certain wrinkles, so that no new wrinkles can be caused by these 'sleeping' muscles. This is how it works wrinkle-preventive.

DO I STILL RETAIN EXPRESSION AND MIMICRY?

• It is important that the natural mimicry is preserved, in contrast to a 'frozen look', where all expression is gone.

• Muscle relaxing injections can provide an emotionless appearance when too much or incorrectly injected. However, if you leave the treatment to an experienced plastic surgeon such as Dr. Nelissen, an anti-wrinkle treatment will provide a natural, fresh look with still sufficient expression and mimicry.

CAN I BECOME ADDICTED TO WRINKLE INJECTIONS?

• It's not that your face needs an increasingly higher dose of muscle relaxant for the same result (rather the opposite because it works wrinkle-preventively).
• There is therefore no physical addiction to muscle relaxing injections.
• The fact that you look better through muscle relaxing injections is probably something you want to maintain, so you could possibly see that as an addictive effect.

IS WRINKLE RELAXING INJECTION SAFE?

• Research shows that wrinkle treatment with wrinkle relaxing injections is a very safe procedure.
• There are no major or known harmful side effects, at least if the treatment is done by an experienced doctor.
• It is also used in much higher doses in other medical disciplines for example to get more control over spastic muscles in the leg, to enable someone to walk again.
• However it cannot be used on pregnant or breast feeding women.