Does a brow lift require surgery?

Believe it or not, it is possible to have a brow lift without undergoing surgery. Plastic and reconstructive surgeon and Sharecare Advisory Board member Stuart Linder, MD explains how.

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Everybody knows that Botox is the most widely used non-invasive injectable in the world.

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And it's used everywhere. And yeah, it can give you a brow lift, but of course, it's going to be temporary. It's only 3 to 5 months.

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Patients present asking, can I have a brow lift without surgery? And the answer is, yeah, you can.

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It's using the non-invasive methods of Botox and this port. Both of them are botulism toxin, and everybody

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knows that Botox is the most widely used non-invasive injectable in the world. It's used everywhere.

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It can give you a brow lift, but of course, it's going to be temporary. It's only 3 to 5 months. And the Botox is injected into three different sets of--

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actually four. The procerus, the corrugators, the frontalis, and the orbicularis oculus muscle.

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Different injections in these areas will paralyze those four muscles thereby prevent the muscles from pulling the eyebrow down,

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and so you get a lift. It's important that those injections be made in the perfect, precise positions

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with the correct concentration because we also don't want to have problems that are going to have the eyebrows looking too pulled

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that make you look surprised. [MUSIC PLAYING]