Medical Expert Confirms Britney Spears’ Botched Botox as Textbook Eyelid Ptosis Case
Britney Spears recently made a post about a bad experience with Botox. The singer said that she spent weeks with her eye drooping shut. As a result, she warned people to be cautious when they get Botox. A dermatologist shared what went wrong with Spears’ Botox.
Britney Spears opened up about complications caused by Botox
In a recent Instagram post, Spears held up her eyelid as she spoke to the camera. She explained that a Botox treatment caused her eye to droop.
“It’s really bad, because [the doctor] put so much Botox in this left eye that it drooped down like that,” Spears said. “It’s just now starting to raise up and be normal again.”
She said she felt “so embarrassed” about the way the Botox looked.
“My eye was down like this for four weeks,” she said. “It’s just now starting to rise again.”
She cautioned anyone who wants Botox to be careful.
“Girls, you have to be careful,” she said. “If you do Botox with these people and these doctors, they can really f*** your eyes up. They try to change your face and they try to f*** things up. Be careful with your bodies because it’s yours and you own it.”
A dermatologist shared what went wrong with Britney Spears’ Botox
Spears did not like her results. A dermatologist explained that this side effect is relatively rare but well known.
“Eyelid ptosis (droop) is a known risk after Botox in the upper face, at about 1 percent in most clinical studies when the area between the eyebrows, or the glabella, is treated,” dermatologist Joel L. Cohen told New Beauty. “This is a well-known entity that’s thoroughly reviewed in every textbook, paper, and clinical trial on Botox and its competitors.”
People can also experience eyebrow ptosis, which occurs after overinjection to the forehead muscle that lifts up eyebrows.
“For experienced injectors, the risk of eyelid ptosis is usually even lower than 1 percent, but still not zero,” Cohen explained. “Experienced injectors know about this entity, know it can rarely occur and, most importantly, know how to minimize it with specific drops to be much less apparent — as the condition gradually resolves over several weeks.”
He said that Spears could have taken iopidine drops to help with the issue.
“In this eyelid ptosis case, at minimum, her injector should have known about iopidine drops and how they work,” he said. “It’s obviously best if your injector has a license to prescribe medications like these prescription drops to help improve the situation until things resolve.”
He also said that anyone seeking Botox should ask their injector about their level of experience. This can help avoid any issues.
“It’s important for patients to ask their injector about their experience, and they should have a lot more than just a weekend-course certificate,” he said. “They should have years of education like a medical residency where anatomy and aesthetic procedures are taught and re-taught, and then routinely tested.”
In the event that any issues arise, the injector should also have the ability to write a prescription.
He explained that this is a rare problem
While Spears had a bad experience with Botox, eyelid ptosis is exceedingly rare. Cohen noted that it is also not serious, even if it’s annoying.
“Fortunately, eyelid ptosis after botulinum injection treatment is extremely rare, not serious and will resolve on its own, but it can definitely be minimized with prescription eyedrops,” he said.
