Celebrities and botox injections
Written and reviewed by Dr Bernard Hayot, ophthalmologist, RPPS 10003926226.
The first Botox injections
Sophie Favier, a 52-year-old television presenter, was ready to undergo a series of aesthetic procedures to rejuvenate her face and figure significantly. The presenter takes part in a new, very short programme format entitled #LeDéfiDeSophie, in which, as the name suggests, she takes on a number of challenges to showcase new aesthetic medicine techniques.
In the fifth episode, the presenter tries CoolSculpting for the first time, a procedure that reduces fat and eliminates unwanted bulges without surgery, along with dermopigmentation to reshape the eyebrows and open up the eyes, and botox injections in the forehead to treat age-defining wrinkles.
Discover Sophie Favier’s first botox injections by Dr Bernard Hayot (2’48)
A better understanding of facial ageing
It is important for the oculoplastic surgeon to understand the bone and muscle structures of a face before performing these “minor cosmetic procedures”.
Dr Hayot explains: “I ask my patients to reproduce several facial expressions before I give the botox injections, because they show me the exact location of the muscle contraction.
The wrinkle to be treated is caused by the repetition of these facial expressions.”
Aesthetic medicine in Paris
It is not always easy to trust an aesthetic doctor when having botox injections for the first time, but a number of factors can be reassuring: the surgeon’s reputation, experience and years of practice, and of course their expertise in a particular discipline. An oculoplastic surgeon specializing in facial rejuvenation, for example, will necessarily be familiar with volumetric ratios, and will be able to deploy a range of aesthetic techniques that aim for a natural result.
“I am first and foremost an oculoplastic surgeon, and when aesthetic medicine is no longer enough, I turn to eyelid and oculoplastic surgery, which lets me avoid a gaze frozen by botulinum toxin and a face over-injected and swollen with hyaluronic acid. Injectable products are excellent anti-ageing treatments when used sparingly, in small doses, but their use, to be effective and justified, must correspond to the patient’s indications”.
Lighter than Botox: Mesobotox!
Dr Hayot decided to perform a mesobotox on the upper part of the presenter’s face, judging that this technique would smooth her forehead, which is still not very wrinkled, for a natural result that would not set her face in stone.
The technique consists in marking several injection points with a white pencil while the patient frowns, accentuating the facial expressions she repeats regularly.
Once the area has been defined, the oculoplastic surgeon injects small quantities of botox into these points to smooth the wrinkles and fine lines on the surface of the skin. These surface micro-injections are called “mesobotox”.
Ice compresses are then applied to the injected area, which helps prevent micro-oedema and gives a cooling sensation that relieves the patient.
Dr Hayot then injects hyaluronic acid into the nasolabial folds to reduce puppet wrinkles.
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