Beauty Blog

One of our favorite neurotoxin (BOTOX®, Dysport®, etc.)injections is in the masseters. First off, what are masseters? Masseters are the muscles of chewing, grinding and TMJ. Second, why is it our favorite? For most clients, masseter tox is life-changing within a few days! People tell us they wakeup without headaches for the first time in years. They are no longer grinding. They are no longer breaking their teeth.

(Why isn’t your dentist telling you about this treatment? Honestly, I don’t know. But for whatever reason they don’t…)

Have you ever thought that your face looks square and your jawline strong and bulky? If you also grind or have other TMJ, clenching or grinding symptoms, there is a good chance the squareness you’re noticing is from your very strong masseter muscles. Masseters are just like any other muscle and the more you work them out (grinding all night and/or clenching all day), the bigger they get. We can often tell just by looking if you are a clencher😬

Masseter tox lasts just as long as tox anywhere else, but sometimes we see the effects lasting even longer. On occasion the symptom relief can last up to six months with BOTOX® or Dysport®. If you maintain the tox, over time, it can shrink the muscle backdown and help slim your face and get it back to that cute heart shape.💜

Most of our masseter clients require 32 BOTOX®-equivalent units of tox (16 units on each side),which ends up costing around $400ish to improve the quality of your life!