Laser Treatments MD

Here’s a question for you. Should Botox, Restylane, Juvederm, liposuction and cosmetic surgery be taxed like a luxury car? As a plastic surgeon or dermatologist do you need a break to keep your prices down?
By Tyler Cowen: It turns out that the proposed tax on cosmetic surgeries (like Botox) might be highly regressive:
… look around. [...]

I’ve seen and head about medical estheticians, medical assistants and even front desk staff administering Botox injections.
It’s not legal, as this story on the prosicution of a medical assistant clearly shows.
 

Betty Guerra’s monthslong nightmare is over.
The 45-year-old former medical assistant learned today from her attorney that the 10 [...]

Dysport is often called the “New Botox.” However, Dypsort has actually been available in Europe for therapeutic indications since 1991 and for cosmetic applications since 2001. In April 2009, Dysport (officially known as BoNT-A/D) was approved in the United States for the “temporary improvement in the appearance of moderate to severe glabellar lines.” These are [...]

People are risking death or serious injury by using an illegal Botox equivalent without prescription, a CBD cosmetic doctor warns.
Dr Mario Soteriou, of Cosmetic Image Clinics, said self-administering the goods obtained at a new US-based online store was equivalent to playing “Russian roulette”.
He said neither the Botox equivalent nor the dermal filler sold on the [...]

Via an almost unbeliveable story on Wired: Fake Botox or not, Discount Medspa is going to jail!
A website that sells a prescription drug similar to Botox without requiring a prescription claims it has more than 2,000 customers. Some have learned how to inject the botulism-derived drug into their own faces from YouTube videos produced for [...]

There's a lot of Botox used around the world from sweating to headaches to wrinkles.
Here's a graphic from a Botox story on CNN.

In the hunt to discover the next blockbuster medical use for Botox, doctors have injected it experimentally into muscles and glands all over the body, making it medicine’s answer to duct tape. [...]

Federal officials in Washington State indicted three beauty salon proprietors this week for administering phony Botox and for trying to bribe an officer to overlook an unauthorized laser device.

In the first instance, Xin “Faith” He of Natural Beauty in Bellvue, WA told clients she was injecting Botox and the hyaluronic acid dermal filler Restylane when [...]