How often should I get a face lift injection?

1. How does the face-slimming injection work?

The principle of face-slimming injections is to block the nerve impulses between nerves and muscles, relax over-contracted muscles, and paralyze overdeveloped muscles. It uses muscle paralysis to achieve the purpose of "disabling atrophy", shrinking the originally hypertrophic masseter muscle and achieving the effect of face slimming.

2. How often should I get a face-lift injection?

The effect of face-slimming injections appears gradually, and begins to show results about two weeks to one month after the injection. The effect can generally last for about 6-12 months.

Generally speaking, after the first face-slimming injection, a second face-slimming injection should be performed 4-6 months later. The second injection amount will be much less than the first. Later on, only one injection a year is needed to maintain a permanent effect.

You must take good care of yourself after the injection of the face-slimming injection. You may feel your chewing power decrease, and you will feel soreness if you chew food for too long, but it will return to normal in about a month. After the injection, you should try to eat less hard-shelled food, or chew gum, eat melon seeds, etc., to avoid frequent chewing movements of the masseter muscle, which can also effectively prolong the effective time of the face-slimming injection.

3. What are the adverse reactions of face-slimming injections?

There may be local adverse reactions to face-slimming injections, but they do not occur often or even rarely. It mainly includes excessive weakness of the masseter muscle and corresponding manifestations caused by the diffusion of botulinum toxin to the adjacent muscle tissue, and these manifestations are related to the injection site and the dose of injected botulinum toxin. Some patients are found to have fever, discomfort, and fatigue after the injection of botulinum toxin. Generally, these manifestations are transient and disappear on their own within a few weeks. How long does the effect last after injection? Generally, the effect of botulinum toxin injection can last for about a year, and then there is a possibility of recurrence, but it can be injected again.