Botox for Somers, NY

Every expression line has a muscle behind it

A frown line, a crow’s foot or a crease across the forehead is the mark a muscle leaves after years of the same movement. Botox, a purified botulinum toxin type A, interrupts the nerve signal that tells that muscle to tighten. The muscle rests, and the skin lying over it smooths out. A resting muscle also stops pressing the crease deeper, which is why Bellava describes Botox as softening the wrinkles you have and helping to prevent new ones.

Knowing which muscle to treat

Good results depend on anatomy. Tiny doses are aimed at the particular muscle responsible for each line, at sites and depths mapped for your face:

• The “elevens” between the brows come from the corrugator muscles pulling the brows together — Botox’s FDA-approved use.
• Crow’s feet form where the orbicularis oculi, the ring of muscle around the eye, bunches up when you smile or squint.
• Forehead lines are folded in by the frontalis each time the brows lift.
• Bunny lines appear on the sides of the nose when the levator labii superioris scrunches it.
• Neck bands are the vertical cords the platysma draws as the years go by.

That is one reason the team’s leadership matters. Bellava’s injectors work under the medical director, Donna D’Alessio, MD, board certified in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, a specialty grounded in how muscles and nerves behave. Treatments are given by her team, which includes nurse injectors Grace Jacildo, BSN, RN and Nicole Cardwell, FNP-BC.

Where Botox fits among the alternatives

• Dermal fillers add volume to folds and hollows. Botox adds nothing; it calms movement. Plenty of patients use both, and the liquid facelift plans them together.
• Laser resurfacing improves texture and tone but does not reach the muscle, and recovery takes longer.
• Microneedling renews the skin itself, so pairing it with Botox treats the surface and the movement at once.
• A facelift lifts sagging skin and tissue, yet it cannot stop your expressions from creasing the skin again.

Getting here from Somers

You will find Bellava on Route 117 Bypass Road in Bedford Hills, at number 182. Leaving from the Elephant Hotel, which now houses Somers’ town hall, the trip takes roughly 13 minutes without traffic, with I-684 covering most of it. The treatment itself lasts 10 to 15 minutes, and the office is open until 7 pm on Mondays and Thursdays.

Somers patients ask

When will I see a difference, and how long does it last? The muscle begins to relax within 3 to 10 days, the full effect arrives at about two weeks, and the smoothing holds for roughly three to four months.

Will my treatment be the same every visit? Not necessarily. Your injector watches how your face responds and adjusts the injection sites and amounts at later visits to keep the look natural.

Can I spread the cost? Bellava encourages patients to enroll with CareCredit, and other financing options are explained at your consultation.

How do I book? Book Now opens Bellava’s online calendar, where you can choose your appointment.