Botox and Facial Treatments: Best Practices

Name: Botox and Facial Treatments: Best Practices
Uploaded: 2024-05-03T16:00:34+00:00
Duration: 53 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Short Q&A from a YouTube video by Dr. Charles Mok about combining Botox with other facial treatments. Speaker B warns that aggressive laser resurfacing…

3 May 2024 · 1 min

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Short Q&A from a YouTube video by Dr. Charles Mok about combining Botox with other facial treatments. Speaker B warns that aggressive laser resurfacing or large-volume facial procedures can cause unwanted spread of Botox product; recommends waiting (usually a day or at least a few hours) between treatments and often about 2 hours if significant filler/volume is present.

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Usually a day between them or at least a few hours.

Often about 2 hours to allow initial uptake and reduce risk of product displacement.

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What about like facials or getting laser treatments done directly after? Is there a certain amount of time that you have to wait to have something like that done?
That's a great question. One thing that can occur if you do Botox and we do, we call tummessing the face would put a lot of water in the face to do aggressive laser procedure. It can spread into areas we don't want it to spread. So that's one of the times we won't do Botox NCM laser resurfacing, aggressive laser refurbishing the same day. Usually we wait a day between them or a few hours between them. That's one thing that it cause, can cause unwanted spread. But you can get facial afterwards, the facial massage afterwards, IPL afterwards, a Vegas peel afterwards, microneedling afterwards, something. We're putting a lot of volume in the face. We want to give it a two hour just because if you do the Botox and you have a bunch of volume in the, in the face, it does make that 12 minutes of uptake last a little bit longer than the Botox can displace.