Gummy Smile Botox in New Berlin, WI Less Gum, Same Smile
A gummy smile happens when the muscles that lift your upper lip pull it higher than it needs to go — exposing more gum than you'd like. A few precisely placed units of neurotoxin soften those muscles just enough that the lip settles lower when you smile. It's one of the smallest treatments we perform — typically 2–4 units per side — and one of the most transformative. A flat $100 regardless of units. Performed by our RN injectors in New Berlin, minutes from Milwaukee, Brookfield, and Waukesha.
Gummy smile treatment combined with a lip flip. The arrow marks where gum exposure reduced — the smile itself is unchanged. A-Class Aesthetics, New Berlin, WI.
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What Causes a Gummy Smile? And Which Causes Botox Can Fix
A smile is usually described as "gummy" when more than about 3–4 millimetres of gum shows above the upper teeth. That's a rough guide rather than a rule — what actually matters is whether it bothers you.
For most people the cause is muscular. A small group of muscles lifts your upper lip when you smile, and in some faces they simply pull harder and higher than they need to. The lip travels further, and more gum comes into view. Nothing is wrong with your teeth, your gums, or your jaw — the lip is just over-lifting.
That's the version neurotoxin treats, and it treats it precisely. A few units placed into those elevator muscles reduce how far the lip can rise — lowering it by a matter of millimetres, which is all it takes.
The primary target is the levator labii superioris alaeque nasi — a long name for a small muscle running from beside the nose down into the upper lip. It's the main lifter, and it sits close to muscles that shape your smile, which is exactly why dose and depth matter so much here. This is a small-margin treatment, and it's why we keep the units low.
Hyperactive Lip Muscles
The most common cause by far. The elevator muscles simply lift the lip higher than average. If your gum shows a lot when you smile broadly but very little at a soft smile, this is almost certainly you — and it responds beautifully.
Short Upper Lip
A naturally shorter upper lip has less distance to travel before gum appears. Neurotoxin can still reduce the lift meaningfully, and pairing it with a lip flip often improves the result further by rolling more lip into view.
Gum Tissue Coverage
Sometimes teeth appear short because gum tissue covers more of them than it should. That's a dental matter — a periodontist or cosmetic dentist would address it with gum contouring. Neurotoxin won't change it.
Upper Jaw Structure
When the upper jaw is longer vertically, gum shows regardless of how the lip moves. This is structural, and correcting it fully requires orthodontic or surgical treatment. Botox can soften the appearance but won't resolve it.
The test is simple, and you can partly do it yourself. Smile softly in a mirror, then smile as broadly as you can. If barely any gum shows on the soft smile but a lot appears on the full one, the cause is muscular — and that's the version we treat well. If gum shows heavily even at a small smile, structure is playing a larger role.
Most people are some blend of causes, and neurotoxin frequently still helps in mixed cases by taking the muscular contribution out of the equation. We'll tell you honestly at your assessment where you fall — including if we think the improvement won't be enough to be worth it, or if you'd be better served by a conversation with your dentist first.
Gummy Smile Before & After A Few Millimetres Is All It Takes
Both results below were performed at A-Class Aesthetics by Natasa or Christy, Registered Nurses, and shown at full result — two weeks post-treatment. Both frames capture the same smile at the same effort.
Worth stating plainly: both results below combine gummy smile treatment with a lip flip. The gummy smile injections are what reduced the gum exposure; the lip flip added upper lip fullness at the same time. It's our most common pairing — and when booked together, both switch to per-unit pricing, which usually costs less than two separate treatments. Gummy smile treatment alone produces the gum reduction you see; it simply won't add the lip volume.
Where to Look
Follow the arrow to the band of gum above the upper teeth. In the after frame, the upper lip sits a few millimetres lower — enough that the teeth become the focus of the smile rather than the gum line.
Now look at everything else: the width of the smile, the curve of the mouth, the way the cheeks lift. All unchanged. That's the entire goal — the same smile, just framed differently.
Why the Angle Matters
Straight-on photos flatten depth. From an angle you can see what actually happened: the lip travelled less far upward, and the transition from lip to gum reads as a softer, more gradual line rather than a hard edge.
This is also the angle most people see you from in conversation — which is part of why patients often say the change feels bigger in life than it looks in a photo.
Individual results vary. How much improvement you see depends on how much of your gum display comes from muscle versus jaw structure or gum tissue — the self-test in the section above is a reasonable first indication. This is a millimetre-scale treatment, so photographed results will always look subtler than the change feels in person. No photo on this page has been retouched, filtered, or altered.
How Much Does It Cost? A Flat $100 — and Less If You Add a Lip Flip
Gummy smile treatment is priced as a flat rate, not per unit — so whether your anatomy needs two units per side or four, the price is the same.
No consultation fee, no per-unit math. Your injector assesses how high your lip travels and places what your anatomy needs — typically 2–4 units per side. The price doesn't change either way.
Two Flat Rates
Two appointments, two flat rates.
Priced Per Unit
One appointment. $11/unit for new patients with Christy, RN · $13/unit standard.
This is deliberately the opposite of how most clinics bundle. When both treatments are placed in the same appointment they're dosed as a single plan rather than two separate procedures — so we charge for what's actually used. For most patients that lands below $200, and it's the same visit rather than two. Exact totals depend on your unit count, which your injector confirms before anything is placed. Read more on our lip flip page.
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Explore FinancingNot sure whether you need the flip too? Your injector will tell you honestly — some gummy smiles resolve with the flip alone, and some don't need it at all.
What to Expect Before, During & After Treatment
Your appointment is booked for 30 minutes, though it rarely needs the full slot. Most of that time is assessment — watching how your lip moves — plus numbing if you'd like it. The injections themselves take about a minute, and there's no downtime.
Avoid blood thinners and alcohol for 48 hours. Arrive with clean skin, and take a photo of your full smile beforehand — this is a millimetre-scale change and a baseline genuinely helps.
We'll watch you smile several times, then place 2–4 units per side beside the nose. Numbing is offered — this area is more sensitive than most, and there's no reason to tough it out.
Stay upright for 4 hours, skip the gym today, and don't rub or massage the area for two weeks. Otherwise carry on completely as normal.
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The muscles that lift your lip sit beside the muscles that shape your smile. Too much product here doesn't just lower the lip — it can flatten the smile or make the upper lip feel heavy. That's the failure mode worth avoiding, and it's why we dose at the low end.
If your result at two weeks is subtler than you hoped, adding a unit or two is quick and simple. Going the other direction means waiting three months. With a treatment this small, starting conservative costs you almost nothing.
Because the doses are so small, one side often takes effect slightly ahead of the other. At day 5–7 your smile may look faintly uneven. In most cases it evens out on its own as the remaining product settles.
Day 14 is the honest measure. If something still looks uneven then, tell us — refinement is fast, and correcting a millimetre of asymmetry is exactly the kind of adjustment this treatment allows for.
Gummy Smile FAQ New Berlin & Milwaukee, WI
Yes — when the cause is muscular, which it is for most people. A small group of muscles lifts your upper lip when you smile. In some faces they pull harder and higher than needed, exposing more gum. A few units of neurotoxin reduce that lift so the lip settles a few millimetres lower.
It won't help if your gum display comes from jaw structure or excess gum tissue — those need orthodontic, surgical, or dental treatment. A quick self-test: smile softly, then smile broadly. If gum appears mainly on the broad smile, the cause is muscular and this treatment suits you.
$100 flat at A-Class Aesthetics — the same price with either injector, regardless of how many units your anatomy needs. No consultation fee, no per-unit math.
If you add a lip flip in the same appointment, both switch to per-unit pricing ($11/unit for new patients with Christy, RN; $13/unit standard). A typical combination runs 8–14 units total, so usually less than the $200 you'd pay booking them separately.
2–4 units per side — so 4–8 units total. These are among the smallest doses we administer anywhere on the face.
Because the treatment is flat-rate, the unit count doesn't change your price. It does change your result, which is why we start at the lower end deliberately. Adding a unit or two at your two-week check is quick; waiting out an over-treated lip takes three months.
The shape, width, and warmth of your smile stay the same — only the height of the lip changes. That's the entire goal, and it's why the units stay so low.
Being straight with you: the muscles lifting your lip sit near the ones shaping your smile, so over-treatment here can flatten the smile or make the upper lip feel heavy. That's the failure mode worth avoiding, and it comes down to dose and placement rather than the treatment itself. Starting conservative is how we avoid it.
The area beside the nose is more sensitive than most, so we offer numbing for this treatment — just ask. With it, most patients feel very little.
Without numbing it's a brief pinch at each point, and the injections take about a minute total. Small bumps settle within 20–30 minutes. Minor bruising near the nose is the most common side effect and usually clears within a few days.
3–4 months with Botox or Dysport, or 5–6 months with Daxxify. The lift returns gradually rather than suddenly, so you'll notice it creeping back before it's fully gone.
All three products are the same price here, so the choice is clinical. Worth knowing: only Dysport earns Aspire Rewards points, which is a fair consideration if you plan to treat regularly.
Nothing changes on day one. Onset begins at 2–4 days with Dysport, or 3–5 days with Botox and Daxxify. Most of the effect is visible by day 7, and your full result arrives at day 14.
Slight unevenness around day 5–7 is normal — with doses this small, one side often takes effect before the other, and it usually resolves on its own. Day 14 is the honest measure. Booking around an event? Come in at least 2–3 weeks ahead.
It's our most common pairing, and both before-and-afters on this page show the combination. The gummy smile injections reduce gum exposure; the lip flip rolls more upper lip into view. Together they address height and fullness at once.
That said — some gummy smiles resolve well enough with a flip alone, and plenty of people don't need one at all. Your injector will tell you honestly which applies to you rather than defaulting to both. If you do combine them, the per-unit pricing usually costs less than two separate flat rates.
No — neurotoxin is temporary by nature. The lift gradually returns over 3–4 months and your smile goes back to exactly how it was before.
For a treatment on a feature as visible as your smile, that's genuinely reassuring. If you try it and decide it isn't for you, it's a waiting problem rather than a permanent one — which is a reasonable argument for trying it once before committing to anything surgical.
Come back at two weeks and tell us. If the change is subtler than you hoped, adding a unit or two is fast and simple. If something looks uneven, refinement is exactly the kind of small adjustment this treatment allows for.
If the result is more than you wanted, there's no reversal agent for neurotoxin — it wears off over 3–4 months and you're back to baseline. That asymmetry in what's fixable is precisely why we dose conservatively from the start.
Common and expected: small raised bumps at each injection site that settle within 20–30 minutes, brief redness, and occasional minor bruising near the nose — the most likely of the three in this area.
Uncommon: temporary asymmetry, or a sense that the upper lip feels heavy or less mobile. Both trace back to dose and placement rather than the product, and both are temporary — neurotoxin wears off by nature. Avoid rubbing the area for two weeks and stay upright for four hours after treatment to keep product where it was placed.
The common clinical guide is more than about 3–4 millimetres of gum showing above the upper teeth at a full smile. But that's a rough marker, not a diagnosis.
What actually matters is whether it bothers you. Plenty of people with 2mm of gum display dislike it, and plenty with 5mm have never given it a thought. There's nothing wrong with either — we treat it because you want it treated, not because a measurement says you should.
All injectable treatments are performed by Registered Nurses only — Natasa (Founder & RN) or Christy (Lead RN) — under the medical oversight of Dr. Dave Christianson, Medical Director.
This is a millimetre-scale treatment placed near the muscles that shape your smile, which makes injector experience matter more here than the product choice does. A-Class Aesthetics is a medical spa, not a beauty salon.
Yes. A-Class Aesthetics is located at 15155 W National Ave in New Berlin, WI — directly across from the New Berlin Public Library, about 8 minutes from Brookfield, 12 minutes from Waukesha, and 22 minutes from Milwaukee.
We serve patients from across SE Wisconsin including Milwaukee, New Berlin, Waukesha, Brookfield, Pewaukee, Elm Grove, Greenfield, West Allis, Wauwatosa, and Menomonee Falls.
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Gummy Smile Treatment Near You Serving SE Wisconsin
A-Class Aesthetics is located at 15155 W National Ave in New Berlin, WI — directly across from the New Berlin Public Library. We're a short drive from Milwaukee, Waukesha, Brookfield, Pewaukee, Menomonee Falls, Elm Grove, Greenfield, and West Allis. Whether you're searching for gummy smile Botox near Milwaukee, lip lowering treatment in Waukesha, or gummy smile correction in Brookfield, our New Berlin location is easily accessible from across SE Wisconsin — with free parking and an appointment that fits a lunch break.
New Berlin, WI 53151
Smile Without Thinking About It A Few Millimetres, a Flat $100
Performed by Registered Nurses under the medical oversight of Dr. Dave Christianson. Dosed conservatively by design — the shape of your smile stays exactly as it is. Minutes from Milwaukee, Waukesha, and Brookfield.