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hi I'm dr. Johnny talking today about
fake Botox I get asked this a lot
especially when I go around the country
do training some people say well we
think there's fake Botox in her town and
cheap Botox and we did an Instagram post
on this and one of the top questions was
how do I know if I'm getting fake
product well there's a lot of nuances
around product effective product fake
product and ways that you can maybe tell
and ways that you think you can but
can't and we'll go through that here
today in this video there's three types
of Botox here Botox is a brand name but
we have Xia man in Dysport as well and
there's really three types in my opinion
of fake Botox
there's imported product and that
product might come from Canada it might
come from another country but the
product was made by the manufacturer so
maybe it's not really fake but you
really can't import from other countries
and the biggest problem with that is
handling how do you know how it was
stored because the two of the three
needs to be kept cold and if they're not
the end product won't work as well so
there's important the next is what I
call real fake product the writing on
the vial is in a different language you
don't know where it was manufactured it
was probably made by a third party and
it might look nothing like normal
product and the third product is and I
don't see this any more here but but
it's animal derived product and there
are cases of people using this mainly in
the early 2000s the product there was
there was a lot of variability of course
and the unit dosing if it's off a little
bit then it will be there not effective
at all or too effective and too
effective of course is a bigger problem
so those who when I think about it those
are really the three types of fake
product that you can get people and
practitioners that had great ideas on
how to tell if it's fake because there's
a consumer that's what you might want to
know so the one thing that allergen is
done
as and the other companies have put a
hologram on the vial so if you see a
hologram on the vial but then you guy
need to look at the vial and if you can
recreate a hundred dollar bill you can
recreate a hologram on a vial and it
could be a legitimate vial with another
product and so how can you really tell
that the product in that vial is the
product that was originally mixed in
there so while it's something good to
see it's not a hundred percent foolproof
the second way and this is a reasonable
way is to look up on the physician
locator for the product for the company
and if the purse is not on the locator
maybe they're not ordering from within
this country the problem there is you
don't have to place all of your order of
product from this country you could be
getting a mix of product so you don't
necessarily know they're still on the
locator so the consensus was from the
Instagram well it's another step that
you can take but it's certainly not
foolproof to know the Third Way was to
have it drawn up in front of you many
people said that well you could have the
product drawn up in front of you see
where it's coming from
it may be it's mixed up in front of you
but again you don't particularly know
where that vial came from and if it's
imported from another country really it
looks very very similar I'm Canadian and
and the Carothers who invented Botox are
from Vancouver and really it really a
lot a lot of it started up there but the
vials look the same when you get them I
can't I see them individually I can't
particularly tell the difference and of
course they have the hologram up there
so you could get it mixed up in front of
you but again not a foolproof way so
those are our three things that were
suggestive they're not foolproof but
collectively together can probably help
you other things like if it works or if
it worked before but it doesn't work now
dilutions and storage and all those
things that go through in other videos
but really the patient cares about the
result the number one thing to ask when
you call a clinic really is who's doing
it how long they've been doing it their
expiry
and you can ask about their product so
do your due diligence find the clinic
still the best way is word-of-mouth
through people you know I've been going
to somewhere for a while let us know
below what's your method to make sure
that you're getting what you paid for
and you feel comfortable at the clinic
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