The Ideal Dose of Botox

Name: The Ideal Dose of Botox
Uploaded: 2025-05-09T16:00:43+00:00
Duration: 42 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: This content was created by Dr. Charles Mok. This content was uploaded by Dr. Charles Mok. This is a YouTube video titled "The Ideal Dose of Botox"…

9 May 2025 · 1 min

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This content was created by Dr. Charles Mok. This content was uploaded by Dr. Charles Mok. This is a YouTube video titled "The Ideal Dose of Botox" (recorded 2025-05-09) containing an informational spoken segment by a single speaker labeled SPEAKER A—likely a clinician—about Botox dosing and safety. The speaker cites an estimated human LD50 of ~3,000 units, notes the FDA-approved dose of 64 units, and gives typical clinical dosing ranges (around the eyes: ~57 units average female and ~100 units average male; for neck and lower-face treatments: ~100–150 units in women and ~200 units in men).

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Is there too many units a person could ever get? We know that even lethal dose, 50% for humans is 3,000 units. So if you did say a thousand units, you are using a potentially close to dangerous dose, 3000. It is risky. So for cosmetic dosing, there's really no dosage window because you really can't do enough that could be dangerous. The FDA dose is 64 units of Botox, and that's just the only dose you can use more or less than that. So FDA is what they have approval to market for. Eyes positioned, we're typically about 57 units in our average female patient. Average male patient, roughly 100 units. As for typical treatments, if we're doing the neck and the lower face, more like, you know, 100 to 150 units in women and 200 units in men.