Archive · 29 Aug 2026
New Guidelines Urge Training Before Botox and Fillers
Botox and fillers are medical treatments that use injections.
In India, the person giving these injections must at least be a Registered Medical Practitioner.
Experts say that basic medical registration may not be enough.
They recommend extra training in injections and handling complications.
Some clinics are reportedly hiring people without suitable qualifications.
Doctors have seen patients suffer burns, blocked arteries and damaged skin after treatment at nonlicensed clinics.
These problems need fast and proper medical care.
Patients should check a practitioner’s qualifications and training before getting treatment.
India’s minimum legal requirement for aesthetic injectables is that the practitioner be a Registered Medical Practitioner.
Doctors are advised to obtain additional structured training in aesthetic injectables and complication management.
Experts say undergraduate medical education does not comprehensively cover these relatively new procedures.
Clinics reportedly hire practitioners from backgrounds including Unani medicine, Ayurveda, physiotherapy and unrelated degrees.
Patients treated at nonlicensed clinics have reportedly suffered skin burns, arterial blocks and skin necrosis.
- Who
- Registered Medical Practitioners and other people performing aesthetic injections, including practitioners whose qualifications experts questioned.
- What
- Experts outlined the need for proper qualifications and additional structured training before performing Botox, fillers and other aesthetic injectables.
- Where
- India.
- Why
- To improve technical skill and clinical judgment and reduce serious complications such as burns, arterial blocks and skin necrosis.
- Minimum legal requirement
- The practitioner must be a Registered Medical Practitioner in India.
- Recommended additional preparation
- Structured training in aesthetic injectables and complication management.
- Curriculum limitation
- Injectable aesthetic procedures are not comprehensively covered in undergraduate medical education, according to the article.
- Qualifications reportedly seen in clinics
- Experts cited Unani and Ayurvedic professionals, physiotherapists and a BA graduate with an aesthetics fellowship.
- Reported complications
- Skin burns, arterial blocks and necrosis of the skin.
- Clinical response
- These complications require immediate and appropriate medical management.