Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from March, 2012

Botox Founder And Developer Laments Missing Out On Botox Billions

Botox is a brand name that has become popular over the last few years. It has become more and more popular as the years goes by due to its popular usage. Apart from the fact that it can be used to ease muscles, it can also be used in cosmetics to flattening wrinkles . More and more people including Hollywood stars are using the products to get rid of wrinkles . Surprisingly, the founder and developer of Botox has not been able to benefit from the billions of dollars Botox is currently making yearly. Dr. Alan Scott said this in New Delhi, India during his interview with Times of India when he visited there. Dr. Alan Scott who is an ophthalmologist from San Francisco discovered Botox while he was in search for cure for crossed eyes. When he discovered Botox, he originally called it “Oculinum”. He gave the right of the drug to allergen, a us based company in California in 1991 for $4.5 dollars. According to him, if he had held on to the drug, he would have been making billions of ...