What Happens When One Gets Injection for Jaw Slimming?

The advanced aesthetic science has non-invasive and minimally invasive cosmetic tweaks that ensure oval jaw sculpting in the matter of a few days or weeks.

Teeth-Grinding Results in Enlarged Jaws

Apart from those who are born with a square jaw, there are a few ones who develop it for being habitual to teeth grinding. Also called bruxism, this over grinding causes abrasion in the teeth of your lower jaw over time. Thereby, the person develops an enlarged jaw line due to developing flat and straight-edged cuspids. In addition, they suffer from pain in the jaw, headaches, tightness, difficult chewing, earaches, limited opening, locking and discomfort.

What is jaw line slimming?

Also called masseter muscle reduction, Jaw Slimming is an aesthetic correction of hypertrophic masseter muscles. It also helps to overcome pain and discomfort that stem due to grinding teeth, which gradually broadens the jaw line. With jaw line slimming, the cosmetic surgeon lifts your lower face to look narrower and oval.

Masseters Location

As known, the masseters are the bulky muscles below your cheekbones. You can touch them on each side of the angle of your jaw. These muscles enable you to masticate or chew because they help in chewing.

The Procedure

The expert cosmetic surgeon does it through a specific procedure that involves anti-wrinkle injections and fillers together with other cosmetic therapies, like dermapen needling. The quantum of doses in those injections and fillers may vary as per the condition. When these injectables and therapies are administered at multiple points, the targeted muscles turn softer and smaller in appearance. Gradually, they shrink and acquire a natural shape. Finally, the patient returns with a slimmer and more feminine jaw line in 2 to 8 weeks.

The patient is called again at the interval of 4 or 8 weeks to ensure whether or not the jaw lift is in place. Subsequently, the follow up procedure is performed after 6 months of the non-invasive jaw reducing surgery.

The Concern

The most common concern with the masseter reduction is the inability to chew the food. However, the injections and fillers do relax these muscles, but not in such a manner that it would freeze and hamper normal chewing. The smaller muscles perform mastication smoothly. Some people feel chewing hard food a bit funny straight away after the treatment.

Can you get botox in your jawline?

Straightly say, yes. You can get the Botox to fix your jaw line shape. Botox is a synthetic component that is inserted to fade away furrows, creases and folds. Besides, the condition of Bruxism can be stopped as the relaxed masseter muscles stop the overworking of teeth unnecessarily. Thereby, the patient experiences a relief in ache.

Micro- Needling:

It is the cosmetic treatment that involves a device called dermapen, which has many fine needles at its nozzle. The experienced doctors like Dr. Umed Shekhawat attaches a small glass vial to this stamping device over the skin that has been numbed with a cream. The patient quickly grows used to it during the procedure that lasts for 60 minutes.

After the procedure, the skin looks slightly pink and inflamed or, windburned face. But these signs are temporary and go off within one or two days.

Thread-Lift for Jaw Slimming

This thread lift is a bit invasive technique, wherein the cosmetic surgeon practices the tweak of the concise incision at the targeted area. With the help of Aptos thread, which completely dissolved in the skin over time, the sags or jowls in the masseter muscles are lifted.

The patient normally starts noticing the difference in a week.

How long does jaw slimming last?

The effect of jaw slimming appears for 6 months, depending on the skin condition. But, if it is done through minimally invasive thread lift, it shows WOW results for almost 7 to 10 years.

Dr. Umed is a certified cosmetic practitioner, spreading his 20+ years experience value via Dr. Umed Cosmetics’ anti-wrinkle treatment.