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Can facial injectables help reduce wrinkles and fine lines?
How could facial injectables help my Gummy Smile?
My jaw muscles are painful, could facial injectables help?
Are muscle relaxers safe to use?

Do you have unwanted lines and wrinkles? Facial injectables could help you. Our muscle relaxing injections can subtly reduce the appearance of crow’s feet and frown lines, forehead lines and bunny lines (lines either side of your nose). By helping your facial muscles to relax, we can create a naturally smoother looking appearance.

Facial Injectables can be used to enhance the effects of cosmetic dentistry, or work wonderfully on their own to help create a more youthful appearance. In addition to providing cosmetic benefits, Facial Injectables are extremely useful for relaxing overactive muscles that can cause gummy smiles and for treating teeth grinding and jaw muscle pain.

Facial injectables are designed to produce a completely natural appearance, so you’ll still be able to make facial expressions and show your emotions.

Can facial injectables help reduce wrinkles and fine lines?

Muscle relaxing injections can be used to reduce the appearance of lines including:

  • Lines around the mouth
  • Forehead lines
  • Crow’s feet
  • Frown lines
  • Bunny lines, which are those lines either side of your nose

Reducing the activity of facial muscles has the effect of smoothing out fine lines, making them less visible.

How could facial injectables help my Gummy Smile?

A gummy smile can be due to a large maxilla, or upper jaw bone but this isn’t always the case. Sometimes the gum line is perfectly natural but the upper lip is raised up too far due to an overactive Levator Labii Superioris Alaequi Nasi muscle (or LLSAN for short). We can administer muscle relaxing injections to reduce the activity of the LLSAN muscle, so you will show the correct amount of gum tissue when smiling and talking.

My jaw muscles are painful, could facial injectables help?

We feel this is one of the most useful ways to utilise this treatment. Jaw muscle pain is often a side effect of bruxism or night time clenching and grinding which can cause considerable damage to the teeth, gums and jaw joints or temporomandibular joints. Night guards do an excellent job in preventing much of this damage, but reducing the activity of facial muscles causing the clenching and grinding can be even more effective. Muscle relaxers can be injected directly into the masseter muscles responsible for clenching and grinding, greatly reducing the damaging effects of this condition.

Are muscle relaxers safe to use?

Yes, as we only use high-quality products that have been extensively tested. Only minuscule amounts are injected to produce the desired effect. You will still be able to show your emotions and should look refreshed and relaxed. Our benchmark for successful treatment is that our patients maintain a completely natural appearance.

The perfect finishing touch for a smile makeover or just as a treat

Facial injectables can make the perfect finishing touch to a smile makeover or may be used as a stand-alone treatment, just because you deserve it.

Not just for cosmetic benefits

Although facial injectables may help to create wonderful cosmetic effects, we can also use this treatment to relax overactive muscles that can cause gummy smiles. If you have bruxism (teeth grinding and clenching), facial injectables is a treatment that could help you. Just ask us for more information.

Frequently asked questions

Cosmetic injectables – also known as facial injectables – are used to enhance the effects of cosmetic dentistry, or to improve facial appearance by reducing fine lines and wrinkles. Facial injectables are also highly effective for relaxing overactive facial muscles which can cause gummy smiles, as well as treating conditions such as teeth grinding, jaw pain, and temporomandibular joint disorders (TMDs).

Whether you’re considering facial injectables for their cosmetic benefits or to treat a dental condition, read on to discover how Apple Dental can help.

Our dentists are highly trained in facial anatomy and know exactly how best to use these injections to help reduce muscle contractions while still making sure you can express emotions. Apple Dental only uses the highest quality products capable of producing excellent results. We are extremely careful to ensure the outcome is a natural yet refreshed appearance, working on the principle that less is more.

As a highly-trained specialist in the field of facial anatomy and aesthetic appearance, your Apple Dental practitioner is in an ideal position to provide non-surgical skin care procedures such as facial injectables.

Going to your dentist for cosmetic injectables means you’ll be receiving the procedure from someone you trust, and who understands the physiology of your face and what you want to achieve.

You can also choose to combine the aesthetic enhancements of facial injectables with other cosmetic services, such as teeth whitening or veneers, for a convenient all-in-one solution.

Muscle-relaxing injections are applied to a specific area of the face, causing the muscles in this area to relax, thus smoothing out lines and wrinkles.

Cosmetic injectables can be used to reduce the appearance of age-related skin concerns such as:

  • Lines around the mouth
  • Forehead lines
  • Crow’s feet
  • Frown lines
  • Bunny lines (lines either side of your nose)

The line-smoothing effect of muscle relaxing injections lasts for around 3-4 months. Following your treatment, it will take around three days for results to start becoming visible, and approximately ten days for optimal results.

A gummy smile can sometimes be caused by a large upper jaw bone, but in other cases, it results from the upper lip being raised up too far. This is due to an overactive muscle called the Levator Labii Superioris Alaequi Nasi muscle (LLSAN for short).

By administering a muscle relaxing injection to reduce the activity of the LLSAN muscle, your gummy smile can be corrected, so there won’t be as much gum tissue visible when smiling or talking.

Pain in the jaw muscles is common in people who clench their jaw or grind their teeth, often overnight. While night guards can help to prevent some of this damage, it’s more effective to reduce the activity of the facial muscles responsible for the clenching or grinding.

Muscle relaxing injections can be administered directly into these muscles, greatly reducing the damaging effects of clenching and grinding.

As chronic headaches may be caused by muscle spasm in the masseter and temporalis muscles, muscle relaxing injections administered to this area of the jaw can be extremely effective in alleviating the pain and discomfort of chronic headaches.

Facial injectables and fillers are some of the safest and least invasive procedures available, as only minuscule amounts are injected. Side effects are extremely rare – in fact, they only occur in less than 1% of cases. Of these side effects, the most common is a mild stinging sensation which usually clears up quickly.