Dental Botox – One More Reason to See Your Dentist

More than a few people have reaped the cosmetic benefits Botox has to offer. Reducing fine lines and wrinkles, correcting lip lines, and puckered chins are just a few ways Botox helps give you a smoother complexion. But did you know that dentists now use Botox for both cosmetic purposes and dental issues, such as TMJ and Bruxism? In this post, a Miami Beach FL dentist discusses the widespread benefits dental Botox has to offer. 

Why Dentists Are Botox Specialists

Whether you’re considering Botox for cosmetic or dental purposes, it helps to understand how important it is to ensure the person who performs the treatment is qualified. Extensive knowledge of the muscle and bone architecture of the face is necessary to be able to administer Botox correctly and deliver optimal results. 

Dentistry training (and experience) focuses specifically on working with facial muscles and structures. This is the level of knowledge and expertise needed to understand how Botox will affect your appearance. This same knowledge also proves invaluable when using Botox to treat dental issues. 

Dental Botox Benefits

Cosmetic 

Botox works as a mild-paralytic, meaning it helps relax the muscles that produce fine lines and wrinkles. To achieve precise, natural-looking results, your clinician must work with the right facial muscles, or else there’s a greater likelihood of seeing strange, awkward, or frozen-looking effects. Dental Botox offers the best and safest to undergo a Botox treatment.

Here are just a few cosmetic improvements dental Botox can make:

• Smooth out wrinkles along the forehead
• Soften frown lines
• Reduce crow’s feet
• Diminish the lines the run from the sides of the nose down to the mouth (marionette lines)
• Smooth out lip lines
• Correct gummy smiles

Dental

Botox’s ability to relax facial muscles can be used to reduce, and in some cases, eliminate pain symptoms brought on by oral health problems, including:

 TMJ Syndrome 

• Helps relieve muscle tension in the head, face, and neck
• Relieves shoulder and neck pain
• Headaches 
• Earaches 

  Bruxism

• Reduces jaw clenching and teeth grinding
• Relieves facial pain
• Headache relief

  Masseter Hypertrophy (enlargement of the muscles your mouth uses to chew)

• Jaw pain relief
• Headaches 
• Can reduce muscle mass, which is the root of the problem

So if you’re considering having facial cosmetic work done or experience pain symptoms from oral health problems, dental Botox not only helps but also offers safer, more precise results. 

Feel free to schedule an appointment with your Miami Beach FL dentist to discuss your treatment options.