Treatments: Aging Forehead
neuromodulators (botulinotoxins such as botox and dysport)
Neuromodulators such as Botox and Dysport function by blocking the signal from nerve to muscle, thus preventing a muscle from contracting. These tiny pinprick injections into selected muscles can prevent wrinkling of the forehead from muscle activation. Depending on individual preference, some movement above the eyebrows may be spared to allow for expression. Neuromodulators typically take three days for onset of action, ten days for maximal effect, and typically last three months or greater.
Resurfacing
A medium or deep chemical peel yields a smoothing of the surface and helps erase irregular pigmentation. This peels may be performed in clinic and recovery is similar to that for a sunburn, with redness, mild tenderness, and swelling that gradually resolve over a week or so. Sun protection is essential afterwards, but makeup and sun screen may be used after about four days.
brow lift
Performed in the operating room alone or in combination with other procedures, brow lifts restore the position of the skin and soft tissue of the forehead after time has led to their descent. Brow lifts may be performed for aesthetic as well as functional purposes, the latter indicated when lax skin blocks vision in the superior visual field. These may be performed on both sides of the face, or just one, as in the case of one-sided facial nerve weakness,
hairline lowering browlift
When someone has a receding hairline as well as some laxity in the forehead skin, a nice option to address both is raise the soft tissue and simultaneously lower the hairline with removal of some of the skin just below the hairline.
Skin only brow lift
If a patient’s forehead skin is loose or fairly thick and heavy, often the best result can be obtained by a technique involving removing some of the skin of the forehead just above the eyebrows, with the incision blending in to the natural creases.