Not the same as regular Botox. Tiny doses placed superficially across the skin to refine pores and oiliness — while your expressions stay entirely intact.
The distinction is depth and dose, and it produces a genuinely different effect.
Conventional Botox is injected deep into specific muscles at full strength, blocking the contractions that fold skin. The point is reduced movement.
A Botox facial — also called microtox or intradermal Botox — uses heavily diluted product delivered in many tiny droplets into the superficial dermis, spread across the skin rather than targeted at muscles. Because it stays superficial, it does not meaningfully weaken the underlying muscles.
What it affects instead are structures in the skin itself: the arrector pili muscles, sebaceous glands, and sweat glands.
The evidence base for microtox is thinner than for conventional Botox, and effects are subtler and shorter-lived — typically two to three months rather than three to four. It is a refinement treatment, not a structural one. If your concern is established wrinkles, conventional Botox is the right choice; if it is texture and scarring, RF microneedling does more.
Good candidates have oily or combination skin, visible pores through the cheeks and T-zone, and want their skin to look refined without any reduction in expression. It is popular with patients who are on camera, and with people who have disliked feeling restricted after conventional Botox.
Less suitable if your main concern is established dynamic lines — that needs conventional Botox at proper depth — or textural scarring, which needs resurfacing. It is also not appropriate during pregnancy or breastfeeding, or with a neuromuscular condition such as myasthenia gravis.
Many patients have conventional Botox in the upper face for movement lines and microtox across the cheeks and nose for pores and oil in the same appointment. The two are complementary rather than alternatives.
Filler is not a commodity procedure. Where product sits relative to bone, muscle, and vasculature decides whether a result looks refreshed or overdone. At Modern Aesthetica the founder and medical director, Dr. Daniel Moghadam, performs the injections himself rather than delegating to a technician.
We do not begin with a product. We begin with what is actually happening in your face — where volume has gone, how your skin behaves when it moves, how light falls across your cheekbones. The right filler follows from that. Sometimes the answer is a different treatment entirely, and we will say so.
We would rather place less and refine at your follow-up than overfill. Hyaluronic acid fillers can be dissolved if needed, but a face that has been overcorrected takes real time to recover its proportions.
Fillers are priced per syringe. You will know how many syringes are planned and what the total is before anything is injected. Current offers are on our promotions page.
We confirm that pore size and oiliness are genuinely your concern, and that you want expression preserved rather than reduced.
Topical anesthetic is applied, since this involves many small injections across the surface.
Diluted product is placed in numerous tiny intradermal droplets across the treatment area. Twenty to thirty minutes.
Small raised bumps at each point settle within fifteen to thirty minutes. Mild redness for an hour or two.
Refinement appears over one to two weeks and lasts roughly two to three months.
A treatment using heavily diluted Botox delivered in many tiny droplets into the superficial layer of the skin, rather than deep into muscles. Because it stays superficial it does not meaningfully weaken muscles — instead it affects oil glands, sweat glands and tiny skin muscles, producing smaller-looking pores, less oiliness and a smoother surface.
No, and that is the point of it. Because the product is placed superficially and heavily diluted, it does not meaningfully affect the muscles that create expression. Patients who disliked feeling restricted after conventional Botox often choose this instead.
Neither is better — they do different things. Conventional Botox is what works for established forehead lines, frown lines and crow's feet. A Botox facial addresses pore size, oiliness and surface smoothness while preserving movement. Many patients have both in the same appointment for different areas.
Typically two to three months, which is somewhat shorter than conventional Botox because the doses are much smaller. Refinement appears over one to two weeks rather than immediately.
It makes them look smaller, which is the honest way to put it. Pore size is influenced by oil production and the tone of tiny muscles in the skin, and reducing both makes pores less visible. It does not permanently change pore structure, and the effect fades as the product wears off.
It can help oiliness, which contributes to acne in some people, but it is not an acne treatment and we would not present it as one. Active acne needs proper dermatological management. For acne scarring, RF microneedling is the more effective option.
No, and it is fair to say so. Conventional Botox has an extensive evidence base for dynamic wrinkles. Microtox is more thinly studied, and effects are subtler and shorter-lived. Patients generally report satisfaction with skin refinement, but you should understand it as a well-tolerated refinement treatment rather than an established structural one.
Allow at least two weeks, since results take one to two weeks to appear. The treatment itself has essentially no downtime — small bumps settle within half an hour — so it is more forgiving than most, but the effect needs time.
Patients come to our Beverly Hills office for Botox facials from across Los Angeles:
Our Beverly Hills office sits on Wilshire Blvd near the Beverly Hills–Los Angeles border, with on-site, valet, and street parking.
8907 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 270
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Mon–Thu 10am–5pm
Fri 9am–5pm
Sat & Sun Closed
If you want smoother-looking skin but not reduced movement, this is the treatment worth discussing. Consultations are complimentary.