Forehead Lines

The horizontal lines

What does an injection do to forehead lines, and what is an area listed at?

The short answer

The horizontal lines across a forehead are folds pressed into skin by one broad sheet of muscle that runs from the hairline to the brows. Botulinum toxin placed in that sheet softens how hard it pulls, and the folds shallow out as the skin stops being creased on every expression. Rewind lists expression areas one by one, so a forehead is quoted as a single area, with value-added tax charged on top of the listed figure.

Source: the clinic's Korean page for this injection, which records an effect of three to six months and dosing matched to each patient's structure.

One fact governs everything else on this page: the sheet that draws those lines is also the only muscle that lifts your eyebrows. Softening it too far, or too low, trades a smooth forehead for a heavier brow. The rest of the toxin menu is set out on the botulinum toxin page.

Planning the upper face

How is a forehead plan built without dropping the brows?

Every consultation for this area begins with the same request: raise your brows, then frown, then relax. What the surgeon is measuring is how much of your open-eyed look is being supplied by the forehead muscle working overtime.

01Watch

Dynamic lines and resting lines are separate problems

A line that vanishes when the forehead relaxes is a movement line, and relaxing the muscle is the right instrument. A groove still visible in a still face has been printed into the skin over years; softening the muscle slows its deepening and may shallow it slowly, and nothing about the injection erases it that week.

02Pattern

The frown complex is mapped before the forehead is touched

Published work sorts patients into distinct contraction patterns in the region between the brows and matches the injection points to each pattern. The same logic governs the forehead: the depressors that pull the brow down are read first, because quieting the elevator while they keep pulling is how a brow ends up sitting lower.

03Height

Distance above the brow is the safeguard

Doses are kept well up the forehead and away from its outer edge, so that the part of the muscle holding the tail of the brow keeps working. Early Korean series describing treatment of hyperkinetic facial lines set out this kind of placement discipline, and it is the reason a conservative first plan is normal here.

04Limit

Skin quality is a different department

Crepey texture, sun damage and a deep etched groove answer to treatments that work in the skin itself. Where that is the dominant finding, the conversation moves to Rejuran or to volume, and the forehead area may not be injected at all.

Published rates

What is a forehead area listed at in Gangnam?

Expression regions sit on the clinic's list as per-area items. A plan covering the forehead together with the frown region is therefore two lines, each at the published area rate.

Value-added tax is added to the listed figures, and any anaesthetic fee is already contained within them. A two-area upper-face plan is simply two lines at the published rate; there is no combined price for treating them on one visit.

Settling in

How does a forehead change over the fortnight after treatment?

Nothing happens immediately, and that is normal. The written aftercare from the clinic is short: leave the area alone, and stay away from heat and alcohol while the product binds where it was placed.

Documented risks in the upper face include bruising at the entry points, headache, a heavy feeling across the brow, temporary droop of a brow or eyelid, and asymmetry between the two sides. Pooled safety analysis of toxin used for facial lines reports such events as mostly mild and temporary. Report a droop early: it cannot be reversed on demand, and the plan for your next session depends on knowing it happened.