Dr. Katz has been teaching Botox and Dermal Fillers to medical, dental and nurses associations, as well as study groups for over 30 years. His laurels include an instrumental role in the development of the application of Botulinum toxins in the face (he is named on the patent applications), and has collaborated with the giants of the aesthetics industry, including Allergan Medicis and Prollenium. He has lectured at AGD, NYU, NSU, and all over the world.. including Spain, Portugal Germany, Holland, South Africa, Israel and Saudi Arabia (more about Dr. Katz here)
To book Dr. Katz to teach your group, call (858) 550-9533
Dr. Katz offers comprehensive courses: Course 1 is Therapeutics and Comprehensive Facial Esthetics with Botulinum Neurotoxins. Course 2 (see bottom of page) is how to improve facial profiles (chins, cheekbones) as well as soft tissue esthetics (lips, nasiolabial folds, Marrionette lines). Course 3 is How to Legalize and manage a profitable Medical Spa.
Course 1: BOTULINUM TOXIN (BOTOX®) HANDS-ON TRAINING FOR ESTHETICS AND THERAPEUTICS
2 options:
a) Injecting live patients – attendees should be licensed in the state where the course is taking place. Tuition $1695
b) Simulated faces and skins – for medical professionals not licensed at the location of course. Attendees can assess, diagnose and treatment plan live patients then inject on a simulated face and skin under one-on-one supervision. Attention will be given on dosage, needle angles and depth relative to patient types. Attendees can inject at a future live patient practical session in their state or at a location that will allow live injecting for no additional tuition fees. Call for details. Tuition $1295
These courses for medical professionals focuses on therapeutics and/or associated esthetics using Botulinim toxins (like Botox). Learn to limit unwarranted pericranial muscle spasm and clenching associated with migraine, TMD and depression without usingmuscle relaxants, tricyclic anti-depressant drugs or oral splints. You will also learn how to relax masticatory muscles that compress blood vessels and nerves implicated in the initiation and perpetuation of migraine and depression.
By the end of the programs, after comprehensive one-on-one training on your model patient, participants should be able to:
Hone your skills when you give your first injectables under the supervision of the actual developers of these treatments. Your main instructor is Howard Katz DDS, the only educator in the USA and internationally included by the manufacturers of Botox and gel fillers in their patent applications and treatment protocols. He will look over your shoulders as you do these treatments for the first time. He probably has more experience than any other practicing medical professional in the techniques, nuances, legalities and education of using this material in your private office.
Cost of one-on-one tuition at program: $1695
Cost of Materials at program: Allergan prices 100 units for $600, 50 units for $305. TMD patients may require 100 units.
Also covered
1. The latest FDA approved Botox/Dysport/Xeomen treatments
2. How to sell these treatments and how to be paid, incl. by insurance
3. How to build your Botox and filler practice with ease.
4. How to make your patients raving fans – they will gladly refer you more patients
5. Correct charting to satisfy your insurance and the medical board.(It takes less than 30 seconds using our forms!)
COURSE SCHEDULE
9.00am – Lectures begin
10.30am – Morning break
10.50am – Botulinum toxins
12.30 pm – Lunch Break.
1. 45pm – Patients and doctors to fill in consent forms
2.00pm – Practical Session
4.30pm – Course ends
Patient Selection
Ideal patients are not hyper-allergenic and under the age of 65 who require therapeutic or esthetic treatments. They should not have skin infection or inflammation like herpes or acne.
PARTICIPANTS SHOULD BRING THEIR OWN TMD/MIGRAINE/DEPRESSED PATIENTS.THESE PATIENTS REQUIRE AT LEAST 100UNITS OF BOTOX SO PLEASE INFORM US AHEAD OF TIME TO BRING ADDITIONAL BOTOX.
Course 2: COMPREHENSIVE ESTHETIC INJECTIBLE FILLERS FOR IDEAL FACIAL & SMILE ESTHETICS
Learn how to use injectible fillers ( like Restylane®, Juvaderm Ultra and Ultra Plus ®) to improve your cosmetic treatments, and Voluma® to improve the appearance of the skeletal profile of your patients. Learn to match the lips to the smile and esthetics of the individual patient.
New Botox-filler combination procedures that enhance and prolong chin and cheekbones build-ups are covered. The pharmacology and physiological mechanisms for all Botulinum toxins (Botox, Dysport, Xeomin, Myoblock) and new anesthetic enhanced fillers (Juvederm, Restylane, Voluma) on the US market are reviewed. Real live patients will be presented and treated with the goal of helping the attendee become more comfortable in diagnosis and treatment.
This course is for any contemporary medical office of group which is interested in offering cosmetic procedures.
Participants will also learn how to eliminate nasiolabial folds, Marionette lines, smoker’s lines
Cost of program: $1695 excluding filler materials (sold at cost at meeting). All other necessary materials including local anesthetic and disposable syringes supplied by course organizers. Attendees may bring materials only with an invoice from the manufacturer.
Attendees are invite to bring their own local anesthetic syringes if they do not want to use a 5cc disposable syringe.
What you will learn:
Patient selection for the program:
Select patients who do not require major face-lifts. Your ideal patients are those that require minimal peri-oral improvement (lips, chins, marionette lines, labiomental folds, nasio-labial folds, class II profile correction, class III profile correction). The patients that need the treatment the least are your best patients.
CLASS SCHEDULE
8.30 Registration and continental breakfast
9.00 Course begins
10.30 coffee break
10.45 Continue with injection techniques – anesthetic and fillers
12.30 Lunch break – a light lunch will be served
1.30 patient sign-in and consent forms
Your patients may not sit in on the meeting or the practical session in the afternoon. Attendees are less likely to have an unobstructed view of other patients being treated.
NOTE: all patients will be anesthetized intra-orally with injectible local anesthetic. Please inform your patients to expect oral numbness post-operatively with the associated limitations. Patients may also have post-operative inflammation that may last from a few hours to a few days.
4.00 Course Ends
Additional Costs:
Free Staff Member
Staff members can come as “demo patients” to the afternoon session. These patients will not be treated without a pre-existing condition that require Botox treatment. Should your demo-patient not require treatment we can still demonstrate potential sites on the face of this patient.
Additional Injectors and Staff
Additional medical professionals or team members who show up at the course will be charged appropriately.
Additional Costs
Additional materials supplied by pharmaceutical reps will be available at cost. All other necessary supplies are include in the tuition fees and will be provided for you at the course. You must also show proof of license and current malpractice insurance on registration or you will not be able to purchase materials. Course content and duration may be modified according to current state laws at the location.