Botox® in Panama City, FL

The first and only treatment FDA approved to temporarily make moderate to severe frown lines, crow’s feet, and forehead lines look better in adults.

Treatment requires minimal downtime. You can return to your daily routine immediately.

For years Botox has helped so many men and women successfully treat wrinkles and facial creases. As people age, they long for a more youthful appearance. Botox is able to give them this.

Botox blocks signals from the nerves to the muscles. The injected muscle is then not able to contract. This causes the wrinkles to relax and soften. Botox is typically used on the forehead lines, around the eyes, and frown lines. Typically wrinkles are caused as we age, but they are also brought on by sun damage and gravity.

Receiving Botox actually only takes a few short minutes, and anesthesia is not required. You will simply get injected with a fine needle into the specific muscle and feel only mild discomfort.

Our entire staff is dedicated to helping you. We want to ensure that you are happy with your results and that you never feel like you have any unanswered questions. We are here for you before and after your treatment.

It is worth being clear about the distinction, because it is the single most common source of disappointment. Botox softens lines created by muscle movement — the horizontal lines that appear when you raise your eyebrows, the vertical lines between them when you frown, the creases that fan from the outer corners of your eyes when you smile. Relax the muscle and those lines ease.

Lines that are present when your face is completely still are a different problem. Those are etched into the skin itself, and while they often soften over a course of treatments as the skin is given a rest from repeated folding, they are not what neurotoxin is for. Deep static creases and volume loss are usually better addressed with filler, with resurfacing, or with a combination.

The other benefit is preventative, and it is the reason many people start earlier than they expect to. A line that is not being folded into the skin several thousand times a day is a line that deepens more slowly.

We would rather talk you out of a treatment that will not do what you are hoping for than take the booking. If Botox is not the right answer for what is bothering you, we will say so.

Your first appointment is a consultation. You will be asked what bothers you when you look in the mirror, and asked to move your face — raise your brows, frown, squeeze your eyes shut — so your provider can see which muscles are doing the work. Your medical history is reviewed, because a few conditions and medications make treatment inadvisable.

The injections themselves are quick. A very fine needle is used, and most people describe it as a brief sting rather than pain. No anesthetic is needed and there is nothing to recover from — people routinely come in over a lunch break and go back to work.

You will not see anything immediately. Neurotoxin takes several days to take effect and continues to settle for around two weeks. We will see you again after that first treatment to look at the result together, because the useful information is what your face does at two weeks, not what it does on the day.

Bruising is the most common side effect and is usually minor. You will be given aftercare instructions before you leave, including staying upright and avoiding vigorous exercise for the rest of the day.