Botox for Pleasantville, NY

The appointment is the easy part

The injections take ten to fifteen minutes. What decides whether you are happy with Botox is everything around them: knowing when to judge the result, what a good result looks like, and how to keep it. This page is about that part, for anyone in Pleasantville weighing a first treatment or a return visit.

Day zero to day fourteen

• Leaving the office. Tiny red marks or a little swelling where the needle went in are common and usually gone within a few days. You can go straight back to work, errands or the school run.
• Days three to ten. The treated muscles begin to relax. Do not judge anything yet; the change is still arriving.
• Around day fourteen. The full effect is in place. This is the moment to look properly, in daylight, and to try the expressions that used to crease: a frown, a squint, raised brows.

What a good result looks like

You can still look surprised, pleased or cross; the deep creasing those expressions used to leave is softer. If one area moves more than you hoped, tell your injector. Bellava’s injectors keep monitoring and adjusting through your treatments rather than repeating the same plan by rote.

A year of maintenance

The relaxed look lasts about three to four months, after which the muscle gradually wakes up and a follow-up treatment holds the result. Over a year that is three or four short visits. From central Pleasantville each one is roughly 16 minutes without traffic, north on the Saw Mill River Parkway to 182 Route 117 Bypass Road in Bedford Hills, and Bellava opens until 7 pm on Mondays and Thursdays and from 10 am to 2 pm on Saturdays.

Who injects

Bellava’s injectables are led by its medical director, Donna D’Alessio, MD, board certified in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. The nurse injectors are Grace Jacildo, BSN, RN and Nicole Cardwell, FNP-BC, a board-certified family nurse practitioner who first qualified as a nurse at Pace University. Dr. D’Alessio’s page and Nicole’s both name Pleasantville among the places their patients come from.

Pleasantville patients ask

Can Botox and filler be done on the same visit? Many patients combine them. Botox relaxes the muscle behind a line; dermal fillers restore volume that has gone.

Is there anyone who should wait? Bellava recommends avoiding Botox during pregnancy and while breastfeeding, as a precaution.

Does it hurt? Each injection uses a very fine needle and feels like a quick pinprick; the sites can be numbed first.

How do I book? Press Book Now to pick a time online. The main Botox page has more, and financing such as CareCredit is available.