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Will a crackdown end the botox boom?

ABC News Daily
ABC News Daily
Episode • Mar 5, 2024 • 13m

For more than 20 years, Australians have turned to botox when unwanted wrinkles begin to emerge.

It’s widely seen as a harmless way to look younger without surgery. 

Until recently botox and other cosmetic fillers have gone largely unchecked, so why have regulators decided to crackdown now?

Today, we speak to a long-time botox user and a health law expert about why we need to rethink what we’re injecting. 

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Alison Rice, former botox user

Dr Christopher Rudge, law lecturer at the University of Sydney

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