Can a Primary Care Doctor - Internal Medicine, Inject Juvederm Fillers and Botox Cosmetic?

anyone with a medical license CAN perform these procedures. but they SHOULD NOT! its not that they cant, its the fact that they dont know how to handle complications. fillers and botox and other minor cosmetic procedures are not 100% safe. if they were, AMA would allow a lay person to inject. and these products would not be so heavily regulated. the truth is these procedures have their own baggage of side effects and those are very scary, including but not limited to something as severe as permanent vision loss and disfigurement. I have seen it and treated it myself on patients coming from other facilities. just be careful.  

In most states, there is no restriction on in-office practices for physicians - internal medicine docs can inject Botox and fillers. This is out of the scope of their training. But some docs get quite good at these procedures. The real question is what would this physician do in case of a severe complication from filler or Botox injection. Could this doc handle that situation. If the answer is no, then I would argue that the physician is practicing out of their scope of practice. Just my opinion.