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By: Botox Patient - In: Dermatologist| Skin Clinic
23 Dec 2009If you are like most people, you want what you don’t have. Perms and hair straighteners may be a thing of the past and going curly or straight could be as simple as popping a pill….
A new finding by Australian scientists could lead to letting you switch your hair texture by popping a pill.
It sounds [...]
By: Botox Patient - In: Dermatologist| Medical Spa| Skin Clinic
10 Dec 2009Taking a prescription drug for a cosmetic side effect — at the risk of other side effects — may seem risky. But it’s a risk that many Americans, mostly women, have shown themselves happy to take.
Latisse, originally a glaucoma drug marketed under the name Lumigan, was approved separately at the end of last year for [...]
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3 Dec 2009Your plastic surgeon of dermatologist may be asking for your help to fight the Botox Botax shortly. Here’s what the ASDS (American Society for Dermatologic Surgery) is giving it’s members to solicit the support of Botox consumers:
The U.S. Senate health care reform bill (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) contains a proposed 5 percent tax on [...]
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3 Dec 2009Via Tyler Cowen, it turns out that the proposed tax on cosmetic surgeries (like Botox) might be highly regressive:
… look around. See that cosmetic surgeon down the street? The walk-in Botox clinic next door? That’s because cosmetic surgery spread from the rich and famous to the rest of us because of increasing access to [...]
By: Botox Patient - In: Active FX| Cosmetic Surgery| Dermatologist| Fraxel| Laser Center| Laser Clinic| Medical Spa| Skin Clinic| Thermage
25 Nov 2009Active FX laser skin resurfacing is gaining popularity at medical spas, laser clinics and plastic surgery centers. It’s main competitors are Thermage, Fraxel, and other skin tightening or laser skin resurfacing treatments.
Here’s an overview of Active FX and some links to more information.
The goal of laser skin resurfacing is simple: replace damaged skin with [...]
By: Botox Patient - In: Allergan| Botox Cosmetic| Botox Patient| Cosmetic Surgery| Imported Botox| Laser Center| Laser Clinic| Medical Spa| Plastic Surgeon| Plastic Surgery| Skin Clinic
21 Nov 2009The medical spa and plastic surgery community is in an uproar over some proposed legislation that could make a trip to the plastic surgeon or a Botox injection at the medical spa more expensive.
People are calling it the Botax. It’s a 5 percent tax on elective procedures such as Botox, Juvederm, Restylane, laser hair [...]
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15 Nov 2009A study in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology says if you want to see a skin doctor about a changing mole, get ready to wait. The average wait time is 26 days. But if you want a Botox shot, it’s just eight days, two-and-half weeks shorter. Here in mid-Missouri, two dermatologists say [...]
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10 Nov 2009What do doctors pay for Botox? Botox pricing
Prior to the slowing economy and rise of new competition (i.e. Dysport, Allergan has exercised incredible pricing power with Botox.
Based on data furnished to RealSelf, from 1998 to 2008 Allergan price increases for Botox exceeded the rate of inflation 9 out of 11 years.
Since 1997, the cost of [...]
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7 Nov 2009 From Medical Spa MD: Understanding Botox & Injectables. Injectable products are an important contributing factor to your clinic’s financial success. With new products entering the market like Dysport and Evolence, and other exiting like ArteFill, it is important that your staff be knowledgeable of the products used in injectable procedures.
Although this chapter from the [...]
By: Botox Patient - In: Botox Patient| Laser Center| Laser Clinic| Medical Spa| Skin Clinic
7 Nov 2009
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 [...]
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