The reaction is almost always the same. Someone sees Botox on our service list and asks, half joking, whether we have branched out. It is a reasonable double take. It also tends to disappear about thirty seconds into the explanation.
Dentists spend their careers in the muscles of the face
Facial anatomy is not a weekend course for a dentist. It is a core part of dental school and then a daily practice for the rest of a career. Delivering anesthesia means knowing precisely where nerves run, where muscles attach, and how deep a given structure sits under the skin, and doing it with millimeter accuracy on people who are awake.
Dentists also inject the face more often than nearly any other provider. The instinct for how tissue in that region behaves comes from tens of thousands of repetitions.
The second half of it is aesthetic judgment. Cosmetic dentistry is the study of how a smile relates to the lips, the midline, and the proportions of the face. That is the same question a lip filler answers, from the other direction. Someone who has spent years designing veneers and smile makeovers is looking at your face the way you want a provider holding a syringe to look at it.
What we offer
Cosmetic Botox for the lines people usually ask about: forehead, the frown lines between the brows, and crow’s feet at the corners of the eyes.
Therapeutic Botox, which is the one patients find most surprising. Placed in the chewing muscles, it can reduce the force of clenching for some patients, which is why it comes up in conversations about jaw soreness and grinding. It is not the first thing we reach for. A custom nightguard protects your enamel and costs far less, so that is usually where we start, and Botox is a conversation for cases where muscle force is the main driver. Whether it makes sense for you is something to discuss at a consultation rather than assume.
Lip fillers, for volume and shape. Lip proportion is bound up in how your teeth show when you smile and talk, which is not a coincidence and is the part a dental provider is well placed to see.
Exion and Emface, two newer skin-tightening treatments. Both come with a free consultation, and we would rather you use one than commit to something you are still deciding about. There is no pressure attached to it and no obligation to book anything.
What a first visit looks like
You come in and we talk about what is actually bothering you, which is often more specific than people expect. We look at your face at rest and in motion, since a line that only appears when you animate is a different treatment plan from one etched in at rest. We go through your medical history, medications, and anything you have had done before.
Then we tell you honestly whether what you want is something these treatments do. Sometimes the answer is that a filler is not the right tool for the concern you are describing, and it is better to hear that before anything is scheduled than after.
Botox itself takes a few minutes. Results start appearing in three to five days and settle in around two weeks, and it wears off gradually over several months rather than stopping suddenly. Fillers show immediately, with some swelling for the first day or two.
The practical part
You are already coming here. Your dental team knows your medical history, your medication list, and your face. There is no new intake process, no separate practice to research, and no wondering who is actually going to be holding the syringe.
If you have been curious but not curious enough to walk into a med spa about it, a conversation here costs you nothing. We see patients from Leesburg, The Villages, Fruitland Park, Eustis, and across Lake County, and our aesthetic treatments page has the full list. Schedule a consultation or call us at (352) 326-4404.