Botox and Neurotoxins
New to Botox in Brooklyn Heights
Botox and other neurotoxin treatments may be among the first names you meet when you start looking at cosmetic options in Brooklyn Heights. If the topic is new to you, that is fine. Everything below assumes you are starting from zero.
Nobody can promise what a treatment will do for you. The aim here is to help you ask good questions, so the answers come from a licensed professional who has seen you in person.
For a plain-language start, try this hospital health library article on the long-term effects of Botox and this overview of botulinum toxin from a national plastic surgery society, ahead of a first consultation.
What to ask at a Botox consultation
- Who will perform the treatment, and what is their license?
- What does the first visit cost, and is the consultation priced separately?
- How much downtime should I plan for?
- How many visits does this ask of me, and can I stop after one?
- What side effects are possible, and what should I do if I notice one?
- Is there a gentler or cheaper starting point?
Dig into one Botox topic
Pick the pages that match your own worries, in any order.
- Will Botox make me look frozen?
- How Botox and filler differ
- What are the effects of Botox?
- Where is Botox used?
- Are Botox treatments painful?
- How long will my Botox results last?
- Is there a right age to start getting Botox?
- Can Botox treat jaw clenching or TMJ?
- Estimating how many Botox units you will need
- How soon Botox starts working
- When your Botox results start to show
Feeling at ease with your injector
Bring your list and write down the answers you hear. A provider who welcomes questions is easier to trust than one who rushes you. If you feel pressured, step back and take more time.
When you are close to saying yes to injections, a calm read is the patient page on Botox injections from a university hospital system. Then hold what it says up against the answers your provider gave to question 5.