PART 5: Who Is Actually Injecting Your Clients — And Are They Qualified?

This may be the question that matters most:Who is qualified to inject Botox and fillers?

A University College London study found that two in three cosmetic injection procedures are not administered by qualified medical doctors. CIEH In an industry driven by profit and social media aesthetics, you must ask: who is holding the needle?

Med spa regulation - United States. There is no federal oversight for medical spa clinics, leaving it up to state and local health departments to police thousands of med spas across the United States. Axios The rules are a patchwork — and they are often poorly enforced.

Some surgical centers rely on the relatively lower-risk perception of filler and injectable procedures to justify allowing non-physicians to work on patients. Gilman & Bedigian. This leads to unqualified Botox injectors and increased counterfeit Botox dangers. 

One day Botox certification risks: 

One-day certification courses exist, giving practitioners just 8 hours of training before they can legally inject. Compare that to the years of residency completed by board-certified dermatologists and plastic surgeons.

And the consequences of unlicensed or under-qualified injectors? Federal officials warned consumers about counterfeit Botox tied to hospitalizations across several states. One patient experienced arm paralysis, shortness of breath, and dizziness after contracting botulism. Axios

It's important that licensed Estheticians know how to protect clients from unqualified injectors by doing a little research as I have done here. Another way to protect clients is by completing advanced non-invasive esthetics training so they can offer clients safe alternatives. 

 ** More detail can be found in my book The Heart of Esthetics

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