Why Is There So Much Myth Around Botox?

Name: Why Is There So Much Myth Around Botox?
Uploaded: 2025-05-07T16:00:51+00:00
Duration: 53 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Dr. Charles Mok explains how Allergan's old label warnings and outdated guidance created myths about Botox that persist today. Clinicians ignore the…

7 May 2025 · 1 min

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Dr. Charles Mok explains how Allergan's old label warnings and outdated guidance created myths about Botox that persist today. Clinicians ignore the preservative-free saline recommendation because it causes pain, and newer research has contradicted several original instructions.

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About $9 million in the 1990s (as stated in the clip).

Labeling reportedly says to use within four hours after mixing/reconstitution (as stated in the clip).

Speaker states it is unchanged in a refrigerator for one year (as stated in the clip).

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Why do you think there's so much misconception out there about what you can and can't do with Botox?
Great question. What happens is when people are not scientists, they look for the nose. They look for things that people should not do. If you don't know much about Botox, Botox was bought by Allergan, the current maker of Botox, for $9 million in 1990s. They had certain criteria. First off, they use preservative free saline, which we never do because it hurts like hell. Okay, so that doesn't. But it says it in the labeling also it says use it within four hours. It is unchanged in a refrigerator for one year. So that may be used to me. Or to mix it up and use it. You mix it up and sit in the refrigerator for a day, no problem with that. But they did say things like inject it in certain spots which are not the appropriate spots. They put that in the labeling. But as time goes on, we do studies and we find out it doesn't really matter. So it's something that those legacy just carry on. And I think from a scarcity standpoint, people want to scare you about stuff.