Why may Botox not work for you?

Despite the fact that Botox is a highly effective and demanded treatment, there are many people who say that botox does not work for them. Why is it so? Why Botox work for a vast majority of people and not for some? Let’s probe into three main reasons why botox may not work for you.

1.         You are not receiving suitable botox units: as more and more salons and spas are offering the botox treatment at seemingly every nook and corner, this problem is bound to arise. These places do not have the expert and professional injectors but they compete with the trained botox injectors by offering low prices for the treatment. They adopt different ways of lowering the prices.

Some charge the low price for each botox unit. Be careful of such bargain because you will get what you pay for meaning lower units of botox than actually required. Another tactic is to charge by the area. This is not a bad way but it also has a problem that is you do not know how many units of botox you are actually getting for each area. Professional and trained injectors inject appropriate botox units in each area while untrained injectors will not. The efficacy and duration of botox depend largely on the number of injected units.

With these selling approaches, you may know the volume of injection but have no clue about the actual botox units being injected.

2.         You may not be getting correct botox injections: Another possibility is that your injector is not expert enough to inject the Botox correctly. There are different injection patterns used by the injectors in which they are trained. These injectors do not have the knowledge of underlying facial anatomy but only have training in injecting according to the set pattern. So in this case, the injector injects every patient in the same learned pattern rather than injecting according to the anatomy of facial muscles. Because every one of us differs from each other slightly in anatomy and possibly require a slightly different pattern of injection. If the botox is not injected where it is supposed to be injected, it will surely not work.

3.        Your body may have developed antibodies: The last reason due to which the botox treatment may not work is that your body may have developed antibodies. For instance, think when you got the flu shot last time. When you have injected a viral protein for flu your body detected it and developed an antibody so the next time you had flu virus your body was able to fight it because you already have the antibodies. The same is the case with Botox. With the passage of time, your body may develop antibodies which make the treatment ineffective. But this situation is extremely rare and may happen only in few cases.

So, how to ensure that the Botox treatment will actually work for you? The simple answer to this question is to seek a professional and trained injector with a good experience of injecting botox and gives you reasonable botox units at the appropriate injections sites.