LAM FACIAL PLASTICS

One of my coworkers was / is considering botox and the subject of its use for nose ptosis came up (therefore the question I made last week).

Now, there is something she understood from what her doc says and I am not so sure she understood right OR if the doc said things as they are.
She said the doc suggested it for the nose tip and after reading and then asking you, I told her it would help, but to not have too high expectations about it (same with restylane use for that purpose). Ok.

Today, what came up is that she thinks botox it would help her with the nose ptosis -period. I thought from what I had read (not sure where, not sure if you said it or if I read it elsewhere) that it worked for nose ptosis in *dynamic* nose ptosis, not with the ptosis with the nose "at rest". Should I warn her about helping with the drooping when she'd smile only? Or am I the one to be wrong?

my initial thoughts were that it would help only dynamic ptosis but more current thinking is that it will help both static and dynamic because just like a "botox browlift" when you block the depressor septi muscle, the levator nasi and alaeque nasi muscles pull in opposite direction to lift the nose. think of two men doing a tug of war and one of them let's go. the only one pulling will move the rope in his direction (not to mention fall down! JK)
sml

How interesting!
In other words, would that mean that when two or more muscles work at once (agonist/antagonists) to keep "something" in a given position in our body, blocking the action of one or more that work in one direction will make the action of the antagonist muscles more evident and stronger?

I would have thought that blocking certain muscles would only put their "antagonist" muscles' action at rest, but I guess muscles whichs functioning is not blocked will still tend to do their "job"? (as if they still were still pulling the cord and struggling with the muscles responsible of the opposite action/movement ...?

In the nose, could the elevator (???? sorry if I am making up words ) muscles of the nose work and kind of pull the tip up "more" just because the depressor (????) muscles are not working, **even if the muscles that raise something would work against the normal action of gravity**?

Wow, what a passionating topic...
That example you gave made me laugh !

i really can only speak for the areas of the brow, lip depressors, and smile lines. yes, when the antagonizing muscle is blocked, the other one pulls.
best,
sml