Botox injections have a number of medical and cosmetic uses. The most common medical uses of Botox are for treating migraines, hyperhidrosis (excess sweating), bladder spasms and in relaxing overactive muscles in people with cerebral palsy or to correct asymmetry after a stroke.
In cosmetics, Botox injections are licensed for temporarily treating forehead wrinkles, smile lines (also known as crow’s feet) as well as frown lines between the eyes. There are a number of other common off-license use of Botox injections by aesthetic doctors including smoothing marionette lines, gummy smile treatment, brow lifting, Nefertiti neck lift and bunny line smoothing. Botox injections can also have both a medical and cosmetic effect when used to treat the jawline. Another increasingly popular treatment is Botox lips injections which smooth feathering and wrinkles above the lip line which are known as smoker’s lines. These injections help relieve bruxism (tooth grinding) whilst slimming the jaw and reducing the appearance of a square jawline.