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Florida offers drive-through Botox as restrictions ease

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Florida offers drive-through Botox as restrictions ease
Florida offers drive-through Botox as restrictions ease

Florida residents worried about their laughter lines and crows’ feet need frown no longer - Botox is back, and it’s being offered at a drive-through.

This report produced by Yahaira Jacquez.

Botox in Florida is back and it's being offered via drive through.

Dr. Michael Salzhauer, also known as Dr. Miami, is offering injections of the wrinkle reducer by simply pulling up to the garage of his building in the posh Miami neighborhood of Bal Harbour.

The entire process takes 5 minutes.

(SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) DR. MICHAEL SALZHAUER, SAYING: "The areas that we inject Botox are the upper face, exactly the parts of the face that aren't covered by the mask so it's really ideal.

Here, here, here.

You can wear the mask, get the treatment." Patients sign up online, paying an average of $600 for a stippling of shots across their foreheads.

It comes after Florida this month started lifting restrictions and allowed for certain elective medical procedures to resume.

That included Botox injections and cosmetic surgery.

That has Florida tattoo artists, like Chico Cortez, frustrated - asking why they can't open, too.

"What I couldn't fathom or I didn't understand was that he's able to do it and it's kind of like tattooing, he's injecting stuff into the skin, you understand what I'm saying?

We do the same thing with ink, but yet we're not allowed to tattoo and he can do this drive by stuff." Cortez - who owns the tattoo shop Chico's Marked 4 Life - said he's been able to make ends meet with money received from the Paycheck Protection Program.

But as funds run out, he's desperate to get back to work.

"I don't understand.

We, we're licensed in first aid.

We're licensed in CPR.

We're licensed in blood borne pathogens.

We've taken OSHA classes.

It's like we're prepared for this." Florida is home to about 10,000 working tattoo artists.

In an e-mailed statement, a Miami-Dade County spokesperson said Mayor Carlos Gimenez has yet to set a date for reopening tattoo shops but “He is working with industry members and the medical experts to come up with the best way to reopen safely."

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