Dr. Cara McDonald

So it attaches on the underside of the bone and that's the one you don't want the toxin in.

Yeah, okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And again, sometimes there's a very tiny amount that gets in there and it might only be a week or two where that eyelid muscle is affected, but it could be a few months.

Other side effects we talked about before, you know, if you're treating around the mouth, you can have an uneven smile.

Yeah, lisp.

Yeah, you can have difficulty speaking, drinking from a straw.

Around the crow's feet, another really common complication, I guess we'd call it, we see, but again, it's generally...

incorrect injection rather than being a true complication is a thing called shelving.

So you see people when they smile, they're very flat and so their smile doesn't come up properly and they kind of get this shelf on their cheeks and they sort of get this smile where it's a bit sideways and they get this sort of bulge of the cheek but they're very flush around the eyes in the crow's feet.

Bunny lines.

Bunny lines around the nose.

Again, so if you can use that muscle but can't use your frown muscle, then some people will screw up their nose when they try to frown because they can't frown normally.

So again, we would normally treat the bunny lines if that was the case.

Absolutely.

What are the craziest ones?

Okay, craziest one was I once saw this guy and he came in and he wanted anti-wrinkle injections.

He told me, he's like, but I've got a needle phobia.

You know, I just don't think I can do it, but I'm just not sure.