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. [...]

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 [...]

A pointed nose and taut skin seem to have emerged as the two most important assets for Indians going by the number of people opting for rhinoplasty or “nose jobs” and botox injections in the country.Though there are no official records of plastic surgeries in India, a study of hospital records [...]

What happened in medical spas, skin clinics and laser treatment centers in 2009?
Cosmetic enhancements circa 2009 can be divided into three basic categories. Non Invasive includes wash and wear injections and resurfacing treatments such as IPL & laser treatments and chemical peels, and clinical skin care. Minimally invasive falls somewhere in between surgery with visible [...]

From Medical Spa MD: Medical Spa RX has had it’s first physician who has reordered Botox 5 times. In fact, there are a number of them. Woot!
Oddly enough, I consider 5 reoders of Botox significantly significanly more impressive than only 4. (I don’t know why. Perhaps because Medical Spa RX has only been offering Botox [...]

MedicalSpaRX.com sells Dysport, Ipsen’s newest introduction the the cosmetic corrections market in the USA. Dysport is starting to make an impact on doctors choices to treat your wrinkles in 2009 and going forward, with MedicalSpaRX.com offering some of the lowest pricing on a wholesale basis.
(MedicalSpaRX.com is affiliated with Medical Spa MD, the largest community of [...]

Allergan Inc (AGN.N) on Thursday said its quarterly profit rose, as sales of anti-wrinkle drug Botox rebounded from an earlier slump and helped offset lower sales of medical devices.
The company’s third-quarter earnings increased 8 percent to $179 million, or 58 cents per share, compared with $165 million, or 54 cents per share, in the year-earlier [...]