Wave Goodbye to Some Wrinkles in the New Year With Botox®

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Perhaps you’re dismayed by the increasing number of wrinkles and fine lines showing up on your face with each passing year. It’s a natural part of aging, but if you don’t feel ready to look “older” and wish your appearance reflected more of your youthful spirit, Botox® injections are an excellent choice. And a popular one — there were nearly 10 million neurotoxin injectable treatments in the United States in 2024 alone.

Recognizing that overall wellness is an inside and outside effort, Dr. Scott Lafferty and the team at Lafferty Family Care offer Botox treatments to those in the Rogers, Arkansas area who want to hit the reset button on aging skin.

Here’s how we can help you wave goodbye to certain pesky wrinkles with Botox.

Behind those increasing wrinkles

Let’s first dive into what we’re up against with aging skin — especially the increase in wrinkles and fine lines around the top half of your face.

Most of these wrinkles are what we call dynamic wrinkles, which come and go with your expressions. Feeling wonderment? Your eyebrows go up and horizontal lines appear across your forehead. Feeling angry? Your brows furrow and lines form between them over the bridge of your nose.

After years of making facial expressions, these lines become increasingly etched into your skin. Your skin also loses elasticity and tone as you age, thanks to a decline in collagen production — about 1% per year starting in your 20s. Rounding out the list of wrinkle culprits is sun exposure, which breaks down existing collagen fibers and damages skin cells.

The end result? Those expression lines take up permanent residence on your face.

Botox can smooth the way forward

The active ingredient in Botox is a neurotoxin that temporarily relaxes the muscles that contract to form dynamic wrinkles.

Since its introduction in 2002, Botox has completely changed how we address the signs of aging. Gone are the days when a facelift was the only path to more youthful skin. 

Today, cosmetic injectables can make a dramatic difference; perhaps not as much as a facelift, but you might be surprised at how eliminating a few key wrinkles can make you look years younger.

With Botox, we can smooth out those telltale signs of aging around the top half of your face, including:

• Forehead lines
• Crow’s feet
• Brow and frown lines

Botox was also recently approved to relax those cords in your neck that tend to become more pronounced as you age (called platysma bands).

And the best part? It takes only minutes to strategically inject Botox into dynamic wrinkles, and then you’re free to get on with your day. Then, over the next 4-7 days, the treated dynamic wrinkles will fade away, only to reappear when you want them to.

You’ll enjoy four (or more) months of great results, at which point you can come back for another quick round of Botox injections.

To put your best face forward in the new year, we invite you to schedule your Botox appointment with us. Contact our office today.