Botox Scheme Unraveled

A doctor and his wife have been accused of injecting their patients with an unapproved for human-use form of botulism, or Botox.  The problem is, the couple bought a form of botulinim toxin in bulk for much cheaper than the actual brand Botox goes for, but this cheap stuff was not approved for human use, only as testing material for improved formulas for the popular face-freezing, anti aging and wrinkle substance.  Patients injected with the stuff had no idea that they were being injected with something that was not even tested and approved, so the doctors could presumably make a much larger profit off of them by paying significantly less for the materials. 

The Las Vegas practice he and his wife ran went almost 4 years of injecting this potentially harmful stuff into patients, undetected until now, so there’s no telling how many patients were injected with what they thought was FDA Botox, but was in fact a pharmaceutical test grade of another type of botulism.  The husband-wife team has plead not guilty to the charges of using an unapproved medical substance on patients as well as misleading patients and falsifying waiver documents in order to cover up their misstep, but the husband has reportedly not obtained legal counsel yet. 

This just goes to show, you really have to be careful when selecting plastic surgeons and cosmetic dermatologists, and paying a lesser price for cosmetic procedures may be a red flag, unfortunately, that you should steer clear of a certain establishment, because you can never be sure how they are affording going cheaper on the asking price for their cosmetic procedures when the norm is higher.  I don’t know for sure that this establishment who was injecting patients with an unapproved substance was a “discounted” service provider, but that is often the case when doctors offer deep discounts on this type of stuff.