What Areas Can Be Treated With Botox?

Anna Kremerov
Checked By Anna Kremerov

When it comes to botulinum toxin (commonly known by the brand name Botox) treatment areas, there's no shortage of options to treat your lines and wrinkles. It's a perfect choice for men and women aiming to look more youthful, yet maintain a natural appearance.

What Cosmetic Conditions Can Be Treated With Botox Injections?

What Medical Conditions Can Botox Treat?

Botulinum toxin can be used for a number of medical conditions. Some medical conditions include:

What medical conditions can Botox treat?

Where Should You Not Have Botox Treatments?

Any qualified and experienced medical practitioner will avoid injecting botulinum toxin into the lower eyelid, as this can result in drooping of the upper eyelid.

They will also avoid the upper eyelid as it may cause temporary weakness of those muscles. Injecting directly into your nose or mouth can lead to drooping and asymmetry of these areas.

How Does Botox Treatment Work?

Botox injections are the most popular cosmetic treatment in the world today and with good reason! It’s a safe and effective treatment with no downtime for lines and wrinkles formed by the facial muscles and it can last up to six months. However, as easy as it may sound, it's vital to find a knowledgeable and experienced medical practitioner to get natural-looking results. 

In small doses, Botox can help reduce facial wrinkles and is most commonly used to treat forehead lines, frown lines, and crow's feet. It also has been approved by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) to can also treat certain medical concerns such as migraines, excessive sweating, bruxism, and overactive bladders.

Botulinum toxin is a purified protein that acts as a muscle relaxant. When injected into your muscles, it causes them to lose their ability to contract, resulting in the reduction of fine lines and wrinkles.

How much Botox will I need?

How Much Botox Will I Need?

The amount of Botox injected depends on the brand used and the area requiring treatment; it usually ranges from 5 units to 150 units per session.

Other considerations that affect how much botulinum toxin is used during your treatment can include:

  • Your age

  • Your health (for example, if you have high blood pressure)

  • Your history with botulinum toxin treatment

Botox for Frown/Glabellar Lines

Botox is a great option for treating the vertical lines between your eyebrows that appear when you frown, also known as glabellar lines or simply frown lines.

If you have deep wrinkles from repeated facial expressions, it’s possible that these wrinkles won’t be as responsive to Botox treatment and won't remove lines completely. In this case, medical practitioners may recommend combining Botox and dermal fillers or skin resurfacing treatments to improve the area and smooth out the appearance of frown lines.

Botox can also be used along with other treatments such as laser skin resurfacing or chemical peels to treat deeper wrinkles in facial areas that are more visible on top of the muscle rather than below it.

Botox for Forehead Lines

Eradicating forehead lines with Botox is probably one of its most popular uses. Just a few small injections along your lines can smooth your forehead wrinkles and create a rejuvenated and youthful appearance quickly.

Botox for Crow's Feet

Botulinum toxin can be used to treat crow’s feet; the fine lines that form around the eyes and in the outer areas of the upper face. Generally, only a small amount of Botox is needed to reduce their appearance.

Botox for Wrinkles Around the Corners of the Mouth and Nose

Botulinum toxin for wrinkles around the corners of the mouth and nose is one of the most popular treatments, as the muscles in these areas are in constant use.

Botox for a Dimpled Chin

Botulinum toxin can be used to treat a dimpled chin, as injecting the area forces the muscles causing the dimple to relax and relieve the dimpled appearance.

Botox for Neck Bands

If you want to get rid of lines on your neck area, Botox is a great option. When it’s injected, it can help relax the muscles causing the bands, to reduce their prominent appearance.

Botox for Bunny Lines

Bunny lines are the creases at the top of your nose when you scrunch it up. Again, Botox can help smooth out these small wrinkles.

Botox for bunny lines

Botox for Lip Lines

Whether it's a downturned crooked smile you're worried about, or smoker's lines ageing your face, small injections of Botox in the outer corners of your lips can make a big difference. They can lift a smile and reduce lines; instantly rejuvenating your lower face.

Botox for a gummy smile

Botox for a Gummy Smile

A person's smile is often the first thing we notice about a person's face, and you may be self-conscious if you have a lot of gum showing. Botulinum toxin relaxes the muscles around your lips to provide more coverage.

Botox for Excessive Sweating (Hyperhidrosis)

If you're sweating for no apparent reason and deodorant isn't making a difference, then you may be suffering from a medical condition called hyperhidrosis. Botulinum toxin injections are the best course of action as they can block the nerve signals in the area treated causing you to sweat, easing your symptoms and embarrassment.

Botox for Migraines

A chronic migraine can have a huge impact on your life. If you've tried other treatment methods with no luck, then it could be worth giving botulinum toxin a try. When an experience medical practitioner uses small needles to inject Botox, it blocks pain signals and has been found to transform people's lives.

Botox for an Overactive Bladder

An overactive bladder occurs when the bladder muscles contract more frequently than normal and cause you to urinate more often. Botulinum toxin can reduce this muscle contraction and has been a successful treatment option for many years.

What Are Other Treatment Options Available for Treating Lines and Wrinkles?

While botulinum toxin is not the only option available for reducing the appearance of wrinkles, it's certainly one of the most popular.

Other options include dermal fillers, lasers, and chemical peels.

Any experienced practitioner will be able to discuss how best to treat the signs of ageing with you.

What are other treatment options available for treating lines and wrinkles?

Book Your Botox Consultation Today.

As you will have learnt, botulinum toxin (Botox, Bocouture, Azzalure, Letybo and Nuceiva) is a great tool to help you look younger and fresher. It’s important that you get treated by an experienced, medically trained, and qualified practitioner who will inject you safely.

As always, if you have any questions you can use our Botox Q&A where you can ask for more advice direct from a trusted, experienced medical practitioner.

Not sure Botox treatment is right for you? We have lots of Botox FAQs, Botox videos, Botox reviews, and Botox before and after images for you to do more research if you are not ready to speak to a medically trained Botox injector yet.
 
If you want to look for your nearest accredited and verified Botox clinic, your local Botox clinics are listed below. 

The Well Clinic

4 out of 5

From 6 Review(s)

The Well is a leading medispa providing a range of treatments from industry-leading experts. The doctors specialise in injectable treatments for natural, balanced results, with Tweakments customised...[READ MORE]


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8-9 Lambton Place, London, W11 2SH

Dr Grace Kelly Aesthetics Skin Clinic

5 out of 5

From 5 Review(s)

Dr Grace Kelly is a Dental Surgeon and Facial Aesthetics practitioner, with over 10 years experience in aesthetics, specialising in anti wrinkle injection, dermal and lip Filler. Grace is passion...[READ MORE]


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3 Church Lane House, Church Lane, Chalfont St Peter, Gerrards Cross, SL9 9RE

Clinica Fiore

5 out of 5

From 7 Review(s)

Fiore Aesthetics located in London, is ideally situated to serve the towns of Bloomsbury, Covent Garden & Charing Cross. Fiore Aesthetics offers a variety of treatments such as anti-wrinkle injections...[READ MORE]


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22 Bloomsbury Street, Covent Garden, London, WC1B 3QJ

Springwell Clinic

5 out of 5

From 6 Review(s)

Springwell Clinic is an established aesthetics clinic in Marlow, offering a range of medical aesthetic treatments for the face, body, men and wellbeing. With over 24 years of aesthetics experience, ...[READ MORE]


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10-12 Oxford Road, Marlow, SL7 2NL

Bromley (House of Aesthetics)

5 out of 5

From 5 Review(s)

House of Aesthetics is a London-based centre of excellence offering the work of beauty industry leaders a hub to perform medically graded treatments with superior service and guaranteed results. A...[READ MORE]


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14 Market Square, Bromley, BR1 1NA

Wellface Esher

5 out of 5

From 53 Review(s)

Wellface Esher is a facial aesthetics clinic run by Dr Yasmin Tayeb, specialising in anti-wrinkle treatments, lip fillers, Profhilo, PRP, Secret RF fat dissolving and more. Based in Esher, Surrey.[READ MORE]


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Health Village Esher, 13 – 17 Church Street, Esher, KT10 8QS

Balance Aesthetics

5 out of 5

From 2 Review(s)

We strive to be known as the non-surgical clinic that provides the utmost of high standard treatments, at a reasonable price point for all. We offer a range of treatments, from skincare products to ...[READ MORE]


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7 Wyre Grange Lodge Lane, Singleton, Poulton-le-fylde, FY6 8NP

Awaken clinic

5 out of 5

From 5 Review(s)

Dr. Steph France BDS is pleased to offer non- surgical facial aesthetics at Awaken clinic, based in St Neots, Cambridgeshire. This includes anti wrinkle treatments, dermal fillers, skin care, m...[READ MORE]


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23a Huntingdon St, St Neots, PE19 1BG

The Skin Works

The Skin Works offers you the latest market leading wrinkle relaxing injection, dermal fillers for facial sculpturing and volume loss including lips/cheeks. Gummy smile, facial slimming, brux...[READ MORE]


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No6 Whitehill Buildings, Alderminster, Stratford-upon-avon, CV37 8BW