Treating the masseter muscles with Botox to narrow the jawline and alleviate TMJ.
Using Botox in the masseter muscles is a popular treatment for thinning the jawline and giving the appearance of a thinner face. Treatment of the masseter muscles with Botox can also help alleviate TMJ, clenching and grinding the teeth and minimize tension headaches. A typical dosage for Botox for the masseters is 50-60 units and results can commonly be seen after three treatments spaced three months apart. See all of the other ways we use BOTOX here.
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BOTOX for Masseters VIDEO TRANSCRIPT
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hey it’s Dominique well from well
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medical arts wanted to teach you all
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about doing the masseter muscles with
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Botox today so master muscles are
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responsible for chewing and the jaw when
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they are enlarged or hypertrophy they
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can cause clenching grinding teeth
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problems TMJ migraines so by going in
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and relaxing the masseter muscles it’s
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going to prevent any of those problems
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treat any of those problems and by doing
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the masseter muscle the jaw will also
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appear less bulky and more narrow this
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is now her third treatment we’ve done
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two we’ve already got very nice
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before-and-after photos with two we’re
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working on treatment number three here
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so I’ve already cleaned there now I’m
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gonna go ahead and ice now dosage for
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masseter muscle it’s a large muscle so
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it’s a strong muscle tell me when you’re
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good and cold it’s good yeah all right
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and bike down for me and relax
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you can feel one two but the three
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corners of the masseter muscle bite down
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and relax
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it’s a triangle-shaped muscle and bike
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down and relax
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there we go so we get kind of all three
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angles of that triangle very easy to do
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doesn’t hurt at all all right let’s get
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the other side that was thirty units we
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do thirty units on each side I don’t do
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any less than fifty because the muscles
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that big and really needs that much all
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right let’s get the other side
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tell me when it’s good and cold okay
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thank you and bite down good job relax
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and bite down
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good relax and I can feel that this
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sides a little stronger on her bite down
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and relax one two which is very common
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most of us are have a predisposition to
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chew on one side perfect easy right yeah
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all right great
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so we’ll see you in another three months
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for your next treatment