Botox and Dermal Fillers

Botulinum toxin (Botox) injections and hyaluronic acid dermal fillers administered by Northwestern plastic surgery advanced practice providers (APRN, PA-C) under physician supervision at the Streeterville clinic. Botox addresses dynamic wrinkles including forehead lines, frown lines, and crow's feet. Fillers restore volume to the cheeks, nasolabial folds, lips, and tear trough area. Available without a surgical consultation for aesthetic maintenance patients.

Injectable aesthetic treatments at Northwestern Plastic Surgery are administered by the practice's team of advanced practice providers — Caroline Dubord APRN, Sarah Jindoyan APRN, Reena Patel PA-C, and Kimberly Wyatt PA-C — under the supervision of the attending plastic surgeons. This structure provides patients access to highly trained injectors working within a plastic surgical practice whose physicians' anatomical expertise — developed through years of operative facial surgery — informs the team's understanding of facial planes, vascular anatomy, and safe injection zones. Botulinum toxin (Botox and FDA-approved equivalents) relaxes the facial muscles responsible for dynamic expression lines: the frontalis for horizontal forehead creases, the corrugator supercilii and procerus for glabellar frown lines between the brows, the orbicularis oculi for lateral canthal lines (crow's feet), and the depressor anguli oris and mentalis for downturned mouth corners and chin dimpling. Effects last approximately three to five months and soften progressively with repeated treatment as muscle hypertrophy reduces. Hyaluronic acid dermal fillers — using Juvederm, Restylane, and equivalent HA product families — restore lost facial volume and address static lines that persist at rest: mid-face cheek volume restoration to re-elevate descended mid-face structures, nasolabial fold softening, lip augmentation and definition, marionette line correction, tear trough filling for periocular hollowing, and chin projection enhancement for patients seeking non-surgical profile improvement. The advantage of HA fillers is reversibility — hyaluronidase enzyme can dissolve the product if the result is unsatisfactory or a vascular complication requires immediate intervention. The practice also offers Latisse (bimatoprost ophthalmic solution) for eyelash growth as part of its non-surgical aesthetic portfolio.