Well, hello, hello, guys, you're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K., Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon,

and it's time for a five-minute

Friday. Yay, today let's talk about some craziness that we've been seeing on social media.

I've been getting so many messages and patients walking in the office asking for lifting

Botox, a SMAS facelift with Botox. Have you heard of this? Well, let's talk about it. The SMAS is the

superficial muscular aponeurotic system. Almost everyone's heard of a deep plane lift where they lift the SMAS

and Pexi and tighten things. This SMAS or submuscular aponeurotic system is a really complex fibrous network. It's connected to the muscles of facial

expression and it does play an important role in supporting the midface and the lower face. It's really

tightly integrated with your facial muscles, especially around the hairline and ears. And it does

help to kind of stabilize muscles and their attachments

to bony architecture. And so I've seen this trend where injectors are injecting the forehead,

down the temple, in front of the ear, and then swinging up behind the ear into the back of the neck

and hairline back there. And they're drawing really carefully

precise injection points. It's always on a very Instagram-y, beautiful face. These videos are done

very aesthetically. And these practitioners are alleging and exploring the idea that Botox

placed here all around the face or confrontially can lift the face.

First of all, let's just say nothing's been published about this technique. And second of all,

it does not make a lot of logical sense because that is not what this mask does. And third of all,

Botox relaxes muscle tone.

And therefore, when we place it in areas

where depressing muscles are pulling down,

we can get some lift.

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