Do crow’s feet come back after Botox wears off?
They do. The effect is a temporary interruption of the signal reaching the ring muscle around the eye, the nerve endings restore that signal on their own, and the muscle resumes gathering the skin at the outer corner. What returns is the pattern your own anatomy draws, at the condition your skin has reached by then. Nothing is permanently switched off and nothing is meant to be.
Will they come back worse than before I started?
No mechanism produces that. The block is reversed and never overshot, the muscle recovers its own strength and no product accumulates in the tissue. What does change is your reference point: you have been looking at a softer corner, so the return reads as a decline instead of a restoration. Your baseline capture is opened beside your face at the review, and the comparison usually ends the conversation.
Does the muscle get weaker or lazier over repeated treatments?
The ring recovers its function between treatments, which is why the treatment has to be repeated at all. Patients sometimes describe a corner that feels easier to keep relaxed after several intervals, and that is a habit of expression more than a property of the muscle. Whatever your corner is doing is measured at each visit instead of assumed from the last one.
Why will you not tell me how many months it lasts?
Because the span differs with the quantity placed, with how strong your ring muscle is, with how much of the line is already etched and with your own metabolism, and a figure printed on a public page would be a promise made to a face nobody has examined. Your director gives you the expected pattern for your plan in the consultation room, where your own measurements are on the screen.
Do the lines return all at once or gradually?
Gradually, and in that order: the squeeze recovers partially before it recovers fully, and the visible gather follows it. Most people report feeling the movement return at the corner before they can see any difference in the lines. A corner that changed abruptly is worth mentioning at your next visit, because it usually points at something specific about the dose or the placement.
If I stop treating them completely, what happens?
The corner finishes returning and then carries on exactly as it would have done had it never been treated. There is no rebound, no withdrawal and no penalty attached to stopping. Where a corner has by then acquired more resting line than movement, that is ageing proceeding on its own schedule, and the useful conversation at that point is about skin instead of muscle.
Does treating my eye corners prevent the lines from getting worse?
Reduced movement means the skin along those paths is folded less while the effect lasts. What that does to the long-run course of an etched groove is discussed with you against your own skin and history, and this clinic does not publish it as a promise or attach a figure to it. Prevention is not the reason we give for treating a corner.
How do I know when to come back?
When you can see the gather returning in your own mirror. That is the trigger used here in place of a date written at the end of the previous appointment. Booking around an event is a poor substitute, since a corner treated the week of an occasion has no time for anything to take hold, and one treated too early is being dosed while it was still recovering.
Mine seemed to wear off unusually fast. What explains that?
Usually something ordinary: a conservative first quantity in a strong ring muscle, a judgement made against the treated state instead of the original capture, or an expectation set by a number found online. It is worth bringing the dates, the quantity and the product from the previous treatment, because those three details answer the question far more often than anything physiological does.
Would a larger quantity make the result hold longer?
Quantity is set by what the examination shows the muscle needs, and buying more of it in the hope of a longer interval trades a natural smile for a stiff one and lengthens the wait if anything goes wrong. Around the eye, where a point straying too low can flatten a smile on one side, that trade is a poor one and your director will say so.
How much is a repeat area, and can I have it the day I come in?
Both outer corners count as one area, from ₩30,000 (≈ $20) on the Korean tier to ₩150,000 (≈ $105) on the imported tier. A repeat is charged like a first sitting, with no returning-patient rate and no course. Treatment can follow the consultation in the same visit once the corner has been captured and you have approved the figure, and Dear Clinic is open 365 days a year including Sundays and public holidays. Visitors pay what residents pay.
