Botulinum toxin is regarded as a non-surgical treatment. The treatment involves several tiny injections of Botox® that are administered directly into the skin to facial lines associated with movement. Treatment typically takes around 15 minutes and no anaesthetic is necessary as discomfort is minimal.

At Our Clinic we will give you specific verbal and written aftercare instructions that will give you the best outcome. We also recommend you book a post-treatment appointment after 2 weeks so that we can assess the results and perform a free top-up if necessary.

Botox® treatments usually take effect after 3-5 days and take 2 weeks for the maximum effect to come. There is a small possibility of minor bruising, this will resolve over a few days.

After two weeks, the effects of the treatment softens. The effect lasts between 3 to 6 months (average 4 months). Patients who have had several injections often find the effect persists longer in specific areas such as the forehead.

Side effects of treatment are generally relatively mild, temporary and resolved without additional treatment. There may be mild discomfort or a stinging sensation as the injection is administered. Some mild redness and swelling for several hours after treatment can occur and uncommonly (less than 5%) can bruise.

Occasionally there can be asymmetry, and at two weeks a minor touch up treatment can be completed.

Very rarely, there can be a temporary mild weakness of the upper eyelid or brow (termed ptosis) with drooping of the eyelid or brow, typically lasting a week. This is temporary and eye drops can be prescribed to counter this effect. All side effects are temporary and resolved without additional treatment.

Over time our cheeks can flatten and our original natural cheek curvature can start to soften and appear lower. Ageing changes also take place under the surface of the skin where the gradual loss of supportive tissue structures and the long-term effects of gravity means that larger areas of your face lose volume and shape. These changes particularly affect the cheeks and chin.

Carefully placed filler treatments add volume to beauty points or replace volume where it has been lost. Advanced dermal fillers can, therefore, restore our ageing loss of volume in the cheeks, help replenish hollows, and work to build up cheekbones.

Although different HA Filler products can be used (including Restylane®, Stylage, Juvederm®, Voluma® and Volbella®) these have characteristics that favour improving the cheeks and are designed to tackle larger areas of volume loss for a flattering and refreshed look that lasts.

At Our Harley Street Aesthetic Clinic we have pioneered the use of customised Botox® to each individual person.

At Our Harley Street Aesthetic Clinic, we believe in a natural augmentation of the face and specialise in natural-looking results. Additionally, dermal fillers can be used for other facial areas at the same time to give an overall enhanced natural result.

For some patients we provide super conservative treatments, these maintain some movement while softening facial lines. These specialist treatments provide a more natural result but tend to last for less than four months.

We use the application of the Phi Golden Ratio (used in many of the most famous Renaissance paintings of Leonardo Da Vinci) to the human face to apply the principles of this facial balance and beautification.

We have treated many celebrities and A-listers with these techniques to enhance natural beauty, a term we describe as beautification of the face, enhancing the natural Phi Golden Ratio Lines.

Our Clinicians are very experienced and gentle with these non surgical treatments

We use a combination of measures to minimise discomfort. These include the use of:

• a powerful numbing local anaesthetic cream
• a state-of-the-art super fine needle made in Japan to minimise discomfort

an additional numbing and vibration device that uses Nobel Prize-winning research on ‘The Gate Control Theory of Pain”.

In general, Botox lasts 3-4 months. There will certainly be patients in which in lasts longer, in that 4-6 month range, or shorter, in that 2-month range. It is also common for first-timers to notice that it may not last as long initially but may last longer after the second treatment.