Consumer Cosmetic Injectable Safety Tips

We’ve all heard of DIY home repairs, but DIY Botox and laser treatments? Yes, in this economy many people are looking at cutting costs, but before you start injecting yourself with cosmetic injectables or using a laser on yourself, you need to evaluate the potential life threatening risks.

Injecting foam insulation around a drafty electrical socket is one thing, but injecting oneself with a botulinum toxin product is quite another. Consumers need to be aware that engaging in DIY laser treatments or cosmetic injectables carry with it a great deal of risk vs. reward. Consumers interested in cosmetic injectable procedures should always engage a professionally-trained physician to administer these treatments. Patients should choose doctors who have completed a comprehensive Botox Training program. Read more

Botox Training: IAPAM Announces 2010 Training Dates for Physicians

Presented by the IAPAM, the Botox & Dermal Filler Training Bootcamp and the Advanced Dermal Filler Training Program announces their dates for 2010.  Through the IAPAM’s industry-leading aesthetic medicine educational programs, physicians will continue to recieve the most intensive, hands-on cosmetic injectable and Botox training available in North America.

The IAPAM has developed three different programs to train physicians in the injection of Botulinum Toxins (Botox and Dysport) and dermal fillers. Physicians with limited Botox injection experience, should first attend the IAPAM’s Aesthetic Medicine Symposium in Scottsdale, Arizona.  Physicians with some Botox injection experience will then want to attend the Botox & Dermal Filler Bootcamp, where they inject over 10 live patients over the weekend in Toronto, Canada.  Once a physician has 6 months of injection experience, we also have the Advanced Dermal Filler training program where they’ll have an opportunity to learn more advanced dermal filler injection techniques, including: Jaw contouring, Tear trough, Cheek Augmentation, and Advanced Lip sculpting techniques in Toronto as well. And most importantly, all of our injection training is done in a medical facility or medical spa, not in a hotel room chair. Read more

IAPAM Symposium Adds New Botox Training video to help Physicians Succeed

Physicians can now revisit the preeminent educational experience they receive while attending the IAPAM’s Aesthetic Medicine Symposium, by using the IAPAM’s 3 new clinical training DVD’s, offering focused instruction on: botox training, dermal filler training and microdermabrasion training.

The IAPAM’s Aesthetic Medicine Symposium has long offered physicians a competitive advantage through its comprehensive, hands-on, “immersion” into the field of aesthetic medicine. The IAPAM Symposium is the only program which gives physicians an opportunity to learn from two board certified dermatologists, who are true experts of the skin and cosmetic injectables. In order to ensure doctors learn the best injection techniques, the botox training is done in a medical practice, not in a hotel room chair. In addition, the symposium does not allow exhibitors, giving physicians more time for education. Read more