Edit Tips to avoid a bad Botox experience

<p>You can tell if you’ve had a bad Botox experience if one of the following has happened after your treatment:</p> <ul> <li>Drooping of one eyelid, which means that your provider may have given the botox too close to your eyelid muscle. Having said that, other factors can lead to the migration of botox into the eyelid muscles, such as having a facial or lying down after Botox or vigorous exercise immediately after Botox</li> <li>Drooping of both eyebrows <em>(feels like you are looking out under the peak of a baseball cap)</em>. This usually means that your Botox provider hasn’t properly evaluated your forehead musculature and given the Botox too low down or has been too aggressive dosage or a combination of the two.</li> <li>Completely frozen expression <em>(unless, of course, you specifically requested it, some people do like this look!)</em> which suggests that you might have had too much botox.</li> <li>Drooping one side of the face. The botox has probably been given too close to the cheek muscles.</li> <li>Inability to close your mouth properly. Too much botox has probably been given into your <a title="lip" href="/conditions/lip-volumising/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lip</a> muscles when trying to treat those upper lip <a title="lines and wrinkles" href="/conditions/Lines-and-Wrinkles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lines and wrinkles</a>.</li> <li>Coice hoarseness or difficulty in swallowing. This is a potentially serious complication that can occur after Botox treatment in the neck. If you get this seek medical advice immediately.</li> </ul> <p><em><strong>So how can you reduce the chance of having a bad botox experience?</strong></em> The answer is to choose your Botox provider with care.</p> <p><em><strong>Ask the following questions:</strong></em></p> <ol> <li>What is their training, experience, accreditation and qualifications? They should have been trained by an accredited Botox trainer. They should be thoroughly experienced in doing Botox injections and have an adequate number of patients each week with which to maintain their skills (ask them how many patients they treat in an average week if it’s less than four or five you should be concerned).</li> <li>Ask your provider what their complication rate is. Anyone doing regular Botox will experience occasional complications. If they are a UK doctor then they should know as one of the requirements of medical appraisal is an audit. If they say they never have any complications then either they are not seeing enough patients or they are not being truthful and you should consider changing your provider.</li> <li>Ask them what their ongoing supervision and validation requirements are. As part of medical quality control (known in England as clinical governance), All UK doctors and nurses have to have strict annual appraisal requirements where the quality of their work is reviewed by an external expert.</li> <li>Ask them which brand of Botulinum Toxin they use. All of the major brands (Botox, Azzalure (Dysport) and Bocouture (Xeomin) work just as well as each other if given in the correct strength, but one unit of Azzalure does not equal one unit of Bocouture or one unit of Botox. Around two and a half to three times as many Azzalure units need to be used for every unit of Botox or Bocouture. So if your provider uses Azzalure ask them how many units they use for their treatment.</li> </ol>

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