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Dr. Cara McDonald

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530 total appearances

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Anti-Wrinkle Injections: Your Questions Answered

Yes.

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Anti-Wrinkle Injections: Your Questions Answered

So only if it's true, you need to be under a dermatologist.

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Anti-Wrinkle Injections: Your Questions Answered

So you can't go to your normal cosmetic injector and get it covered by Medicare.

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Anti-Wrinkle Injections: Your Questions Answered

So the actual...

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Anti-Wrinkle Injections: Your Questions Answered

drug is covered under the PBS, like a normal medication you'd go to.

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Anti-Wrinkle Injections: Your Questions Answered

And so you just pay what you do when you go to the pharmacy.

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Anti-Wrinkle Injections: Your Questions Answered

And the procedure is also subsidized.

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Anti-Wrinkle Injections: Your Questions Answered

So you have to meet certain criteria.

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Anti-Wrinkle Injections: Your Questions Answered

So you have to see a dermatologist.

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Anti-Wrinkle Injections: Your Questions Answered

You have to have failed some other options.

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Anti-Wrinkle Injections: Your Questions Answered

Yeah.

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Anti-Wrinkle Injections: Your Questions Answered

But it is a really satisfying treatment.

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Anti-Wrinkle Injections: Your Questions Answered

We also use it a lot for headaches.

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Anti-Wrinkle Injections: Your Questions Answered

It's actually, again, approved under Medicare for migraine, but that has to be by a neurologist.

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Anti-Wrinkle Injections: Your Questions Answered

So I see a lot of people that might not qualify for treatment under a neurologist, but they still find it helps their headaches.

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Anti-Wrinkle Injections: Your Questions Answered

And that can involve treatment up the back of the neck, the shoulders, back of the head, forehead, temples, jaw clenching.

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Anti-Wrinkle Injections: Your Questions Answered

Hmm.

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Anti-Wrinkle Injections: Your Questions Answered

And then there are a whole lot of medical things that I don't go anywhere near like… Cerebral palsy.

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Anti-Wrinkle Injections: Your Questions Answered

Cerebral palsy.

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Anti-Wrinkle Injections: Your Questions Answered

Muscle spasticity.