Forehead Botox in Cheongdam, Gangnam, Seoul

Nothing else on the face pulls the eyebrow upward. Several muscles pull it down — the ones that knit your brows together and the ring of muscle around each eye — but only the frontalis raises it. When botulinum toxin type A reduces the signal reaching that sheet, the downward pullers carry on unopposed at whatever strength they had before. Where the brow settles afterwards is decided by that balance, which is why it is read on your own face before any dose is written.

Two kinds of line live on a forehead, and they behave differently. A dynamic line appears when you raise your brows and vanishes when your face rests; it responds well because the folding is what creates it. A static line stays visible while your forehead is completely still, because the skin has been creased in the same place for years and the crease has taken on a life outside the muscle. Softening the movement stops a static line deepening further and usually shallows it over time, and it rarely erases one.

The full picture of expression-line work across the face, including which zones count as separate treated areas, sits on the wrinkle botox page. This page is the forehead on its own, because the forehead is the one zone where the treatment has a second consequence built into its anatomy.

There is a second pattern worth naming. Treating the middle of the sheet while leaving its outer edges working can pull the outer ends of the brows up into peaks, an effect patients describe as arched or startled. It comes from an uneven map instead of from too much product, it is temporary, and it is usually settled at the review by treating the peaks that were left behind.

• The forehead and the glabella are separate treated areas. Each is counted and charged as its own area on the published wrinkle line, so a plan covering both is two areas, and you see that before anything is drawn.
• Softening the depressors can let the brow sit a little higher. Where the two are treated in the same sitting, the balance is planned as a whole and the forehead dose can often be lighter for it.
• The vertical lines and the horizontal lines do not share a map. Frown lines are made by muscles pulling inward and down; forehead lines by a sheet pulling straight up. Marking one does not tell your director where to mark the other.
• Crow's feet sit outside both. The ring of muscle at the eye corner is its own area again, and whether it belongs in your plan is a separate reading with its own cost line.

Your director takes photographs at rest, at a full brow raise and at a hard frown before any of this is decided, because a forehead at rest tells you almost nothing about how hard it is working. Where the reading shows the lines are static creases in thin, sun-damaged skin with very little movement behind them, toxin is the wrong tool and you are told so; the conversation moves to treatments that act on the skin itself, and the skin booster and laser routes are where it usually goes.

Four readings end a forehead consultation without an injection. A brow already sitting low on the orbital rim, where the treatment would buy smoothness at the cost of an eye that looks smaller. An upper lid carrying a fold of skin that the forehead is quietly helping to hold clear, which is common past a certain age and is read by asking you to close your eyes and relax completely. Lines that stay identical whether your forehead is still or working, which are creases in skin and not folds made by a muscle. And a face where the frontalis is doing structural work — occasionally somebody is using it to keep the visual field clear, and taking it away is not a cosmetic decision at all.

The risks belong in the same conversation. A dropped brow or a heavy upper lid can follow a forehead dose and is the risk patients most want to hear about; it wears off, but it wears off on the product's schedule and not on yours. Asymmetry between the two halves of the sheet is the most common thing a review corrects. Bruising at an entry point, brief swelling and a headache in the first day or two happen. Uneven peaking of the outer brow, described above, is a mapping outcome. Results vary between individuals and are assessed on your own examination.

Tell your director about any neuromuscular condition, about blood-thinning medication or supplements, and about pregnancy or breastfeeding, since any of those changes what is offered to you. If you have had a forehead treated before and disliked how it felt, bring that with you: what was dosed, roughly when, and what specifically bothered you is more useful than any photograph.

Korean pharmaceutical advertising rules keep prescription toxin product names off public pages, so what you see here are tiers and not manufacturers; your director names the product and shows you the vial before it is drawn. The glabella is its own area, so a plan covering both zones is quoted as two lines and approved by you as two lines. Rates are identical for residents and for visitors, and every published wrinkle tier sits on the price list, with the wider pricing picture on the botox price page.

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Peer-reviewed sources for the muscle described above

1. CARRUTHERS J et al. Treatment of Glabellar Frown Lines with C. Botulinum‐A Exotoxin. The Journal of Dermatologic Surgery and Oncology. 1992. doi:10.1111/j.1524-4725.1992.tb03295.x
2. Carruthers J et al. The Convergence of Medicine and Neurotoxins: A Focus on Botulinum Toxin Type A and Its Application in Aesthetic Medicine—A Global, Evidence-Based Botulinum Toxin Consensus Education Initiative. Dermatologic Surgery. 2013. doi:10.1111/dsu.12148
3. Frevert J. Pharmaceutical, Biological, and Clinical Properties of Botulinum Neurotoxin Type A Products. Drugs in R&D. 2015. doi:10.1007/s40268-014-0077-1

References are provided for information — outcomes vary by individual and are assessed at your diagnosis.