Wrinkle reduction treatments can help delay aging and wrinkling.
Wrinkle reduction treatments are becoming one of the most common cosmetic procedures in Australia and has been proven to be safe and effective in maintaining a youthful appearance.
This website has been updated as per Australian regulation.
Cosmetic injection services
Cosmetic injections are generally administered to temporarily remove/reduce wrinkles and lines on the face, around the eyes, forehead (anti-wrinkle injections and dermal fillers), lips and neck (dermal fillers only), or to improve the appearance of submental fat (deoxycholic acid).
Most cosmetic injectables contain substances that are in Schedule 4 to the Poisons Standard and cannot be advertised to the public.
Either directly or indirectly, you cannot make any reference in your advertisement for cosmetic injection services to prescription-only substances or to product trade names of such products. This includes acronyms, nicknames, abbreviations and hashtags, which may be taken by a consumer as a reference to a specific prescription-only medicine or substance.
This includes:
- anti-wrinkle injections
- dermal fillers
- injectable products used for improvement of the appearance of submental fat.
This does not apply to cosmetic injectables that do not contain any prescription-only substances.
Prescription-only medicines are high risk products and patients should be assessed by a health professional before their use. Health professionals and cosmetic or beauty clinics are not permitted to advertise cosmetic injections that contain prescription-only medicines to the public.
It should be clear that the customer is being offered a health-practitioner-led consultation and that, depending on the outcome of the consultation, this may or may not lead to the provision of a prescription.
Some cosmetic injections may be compounded by a pharmacy for an individual patient rather than supplied by a manufacturer as a finished product. The advertising of compounded cosmetic injections that contain prescription-only substances to the public is also prohibited. For more information, see Compounding pharmacies (below).
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