Botox and Filler Injections

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Patients routinely ask me “how much do you charge per unit for botox”?  This implies that they are calling around town and will go where the unit cost is cheapest.  What patients should be asking is “who does your botox and filler injections, and what training and experience do they have?”

Getting a botox or filler injection is not like getting a flu shot!  Your result depends upon placing the correct amount of botox/filler in the correct places to achieve the desired result.  Knowledge of the anatomy of the face and the muscles causing furrows and wrinkles is imperative to attaining good results with injectable treatments.  Many of the offices or medispas in the Portland metro area do not have a highly trained professional ( ie plastic surgeon or cosmetic dermatologist ) performing the injections, and consequently many patients are disappointed in outcomes from poorly performed injections.  Just as patients would never ask me to deliver their babies or treat their diabetes or high blood pressure, so should they not be trusting their face to clinics and medispas operated by physicians with no formal training in cosmetic procedures or surgery.

Beware of physicians practicing outside their primary training trying to “cash in” on the cosmetic surgery industry!

Mark A. Petroff, MD FACS

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