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Botox Usage Summary 2014

For my own practice, I felt compelled to compile some summary statistics to help me with future Botox ordering.  I rely on my staff for tallying up usage of Botox and also on Allergan’s Brilliant Distinctions Program which has an analytics sections which produces excel spreadsheets.

The numbers here are not absolute.  They are more like approximations because there are rounding issues and also reporting of days worked which may represent an operating day without any Botox injections.

Overhead of our Botox Practice:

Unfortunately, this number seems to be a lot higher than I had expected.  Without going into detail on the calculation, I’ll just leave it that it’s about a 80% overhead.  Perhaps in another blog, I’ll go over the factors in my own calculation.

2014 Botox Statistics

  • Number of Botox Units used: 34234 (342 vials)
  • Number of Syringes of filler: 443
  • Number of days I worked in the year: 228
  • Number of Botox units per month: 2852 (28 vials)
  • Number of Botox units per day (365 per year):  93
  • Number of Botox units per working day (220 per year):  155
  • Number of Botox visits per year:  1009
  • Number of Botox units per 1009 visits:  33.9

Botox Summary

  • 6.5 vials of Botox used per week.
  • 28 vials of Botox used per month.
  • 342 vials of Botox used per year.
  • 155 units of Botox used per working day (220 days).
  • 4.5 Botox visits per working day (220 days).
  • 1009 Botox visits for the year.
  • I worked 220 days per year.  But I have not been available every single one of these days for Botox injections.  Some of these days are reserved for surgery only.
  • The average number of units of Botox used per Botox visit is 34 units of Botox.
  • 503 different patients were seen for Botox in 2014.  This is up from 374 last year.

For links to more updates regarding Botox Statistics, please visit my Modesto Botox home page. or the home page of this Modesto Botox update.

Visit this link for Modesto Botox Statistics regarding Brilliant Distinctions Members.

Violin lessons and Surgery

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Article from May/June 2014 issue of Contentment Health
Article from May/June 2014 issue of Contentment Health

 

Text link of the article about early music lessons and how it benefited me as a Surgeon and Botox injector in Modesto, California.

Genesis of the Music and Medicine article

A former classmate of mine who is now on the board of a school in New York asked if I’d write a few words to her board about the importance of music education.  I decided to write this article which eventually got published in a Modesto, California area magazine.

I do feel that music education is one of the most important pieces  of my young life which helped me develop into who I am today, and it helps me throughout all the things I do as a Surgeon, Acupuncturist, and Botox injector.

Nature pictures of Modesto

After visiting New Zealand, I was inspired to see nature in a different way in Modesto, where I live.  There’s beauty all around us – even in Modesto – especially in Modesto.

These were pictures taken by me in the Modesto Area – in Central Valley California.

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Our #1 slogan in Modesto: “Nobody’s Got Modesto’s Goat.”  This was supposed to be the original slogan on Modesto’s locally famous arch.  The Modesto Arch now says: “Water, Wealth, Contentment, Health.”
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I still can’t believe I left New Zealand. I miss my new friends that I’ve met on the trip. But here’s a picture of what I see here in Modesto / Central Valley, California. A neighbor’s barn owls.
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Closer picture of the face of these owls. I think it’s maybe a barn owl couple. The barn owl’s heart-shaped face collects sound in the same way as human ears. Its hearing is the most sensitive of any creature tested.
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Goats in Modesto
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Hello ladybug!
A bowl of tangerines from our backyard in Modesto, California.
A bowl of tangerines from our backyard in Modesto, California.

 

I have some landscape pictures of Modesto, but perhaps I’ll post them some other day.

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Modesto Botox Injector starts the New Year in New Zealand

What a start to 2015 – taking a 9 day break from Botox injections

A trip to New Zealand

We visited with a tour group – a bunch of students with teachers studying nature and how it affects our human bodies and lives – a relationship to energy healing such as acupuncture.

We visited both North and South Islands and we were there for about 7 days.

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Lessons

One of the most important parts of this trip was lessons and lectures about healing, health, purpose, and how it relates to observations in nature

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Lectures late into the night.
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Lectures and lessons out in the open – one with nature.
New Zealand Meeting
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Lessons along a path. Perhaps a path in life? Here we see a rock representing Yang and Yin. This is much of how our bodies work as well as how the universe operates.

 

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Serious night time discussions and reflections.  Picture credit: 張書菁

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Serious night time discussions and reflections. Picture credit: 張書菁.  I’m in the picture – near the side wall toward the back. (Hard to see, but I’m there).

 

New Zealand Sights starting with Christchurch

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Christchurch mural of woman on the wall. Her pupils have different colors.  I almost thought it was a Botox commercial – no wrinkles!
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Morning Qi-Gong Exercise in Christchurch
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Morning Qi-gong in Christchurch
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Christchurch, New Zealand
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This appears to be an auditorium. This is the view from our first restaurant in New Zealand: Coriander – an Indian restaurant.
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Christchurch Avon River – Punting
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Lots of vegan choices in our Novotel Hotel in Christchurch
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Christchurch Lululemon everywhere – even in New Zealand.  Yep, that’s Dr. Tammy Wu inside the store.

 

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Mirror Lake Te Anau
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Between the mountains near Lake Te Anau
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Moeraki Boulders. 60 million years old. Some think these are fossilized dinosaur eggs.

 


Mount Cook – my favorite part of the New Zealand trip

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Kea point trail, Mount Cook.  I like how this path is off to the side and it looks like it leads right into that snow capped mountain.
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Aoraki Mount Cook – at Kea point after a hike which was about 1.75 miles from the Hermitage Hotel to this point.
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On the Kea point trail in the Aoraki Mount Cook Region of New Zealand.
Dr. Tammy Wu and I ate breakfast at Kea point, Aoraki Mount Cook, New Zealand. Kea point was the end of the Kea point trail. That's a glacier in the background.
Dr. Tammy Wu and I ate breakfast at Kea point, Aoraki Mount Cook, New Zealand. Kea point was the end of the Kea point trail. That’s a glacier in the background.
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“Look, I’m a pyramid.”
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Dr. Tammy Wu
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Flying and walking like a penguin…

 

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A medicine comes from this plant. I found this plant growing wild all by itself on the side of the mountain.  The medicine is not Botox.  It is a heart medicine.
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We made it to the top! Well, just our logo made it to the top of the mountain.

Aoraki Mount Cook approach to Kea point, New Zealand video which I made:


Penguin Place Dunedin, New Zealand.  A place to see Yellow Eyed Penguins

A rare bird - yellow eyed penguin.
A rare bird – yellow eyed penguin.
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Penguin Place in New Zealand. Yellow eyed Penguins.  The pups are the furry ones.

Penguin Video which I took and placed on YouTube:

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Carvin / Calvin – close enough. This was in the city of Gore.
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Even more important than Botox for preventing wrinkles would be sun protection! Notice the hat!
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Milford Sound
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We sell Sigvaris compression socks in Modesto, just like they do in New Zealand – it helps to prevent deep vein thrombosis
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Alternative medicine in a New Zealand pharmacy
Hot Springs.  The different colors of the earth are the result of different mineral concentrations.
Hot Springs. The different colors of the earth are the result of different mineral concentrations.

Wai-O-Tapu Hot Springs Video:

 

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California Sequoia trees in New Zealand
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California trees in New Zealand
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I saw this bottle line up near the garbage area of a New Zealand restaurant. Nope these are not empty Botox bottles.
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These are kind of like the pampus grass we have here in California.

 

Bungee jumping originated off this river and this very location in New Zealand
Bungee jumping originated off this river and this very location in New Zealand

Bungee Jumping Video I captured:


 

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Dr. Wu and her little lamb. We witnessed a lady feed a sheep with her bare hand. As the sheep licked her hand, she said “this is yucky!” Then she proceeded to wipe her hand clean on the torso of the sheep. Great use of wool.  We’re just glad Dr. Tammy Wu didn’t get her plastic surgery fingers bitten.

 

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Starting a New Modesto Botox blog in 2015

Update: We Moved in March 2019

Our new address is: 4754 Dale Road, Modesto, CA 95356.  We are across the street from the Kaiser Hospital.  We offer Breast Augmentation, Tummy Tucks, Facial Plastic Surgery, Liposuction, Cellfina, Mole Removal, Botox, Fillers, Juvederm, Kybella, Threadlifts and much more.  Call us 209-551-1888 for more information.

January 2015

I figured it’s time to start a new Modesto Botox Babble collection of topics.  I wanted to start fresh, so I started this new blog.  Previous Botox Blog is located at this link.

New Modesto Botox Blog for 2015

This new Modesto Botox Blog is written on a WordPress platform with the 2015 theme.  The home page for this new Modesto Botox Blog is this link.  And to make things a bit different, this blog would have a static front page.  And the most recent Modesto Botox blog postings would be on a different page – entitled “Modesto Botox current topics.”

Purple – the color of Botox?

I chose some purple to highlight this blog because much of the Botox marketing material and the Botox packaging comes with the color purple on it.  It might not make much sense to anyone else except to other Botox injectors.

Capitalization of the word BOTOX?

Technically BOTOX (R) is all capital letters.  But it sometimes looks like yelling, so I won’t capitalize it all the time.