Doctor Explains FDA Warnings on RF Microneedling Injuries, Counterfeit Botox, and Fake Doctors

Three problems are hitting the med spa industry right now: one RF device keeps getting sued for injuries, fake injectables are still being ordered despite hospitalizations, and providers are using misleading credentials.

The FDA issued warnings and here is what you need to know before you book your next appointment.

Part I: The RF microneedling Device Everyone Wants

"I've done thousands of RF microneedling treatments over 10 years. I've never seen burns, fat loss, or scarring. So why is the FDA warning about it now?" — Dr. Kate Dee, Med Spa Confidential

When I saw the FDA letter about RF microneedling complications, I was confused. This treatment is my go-to for anti-aging. It tightens skin, improves texture, and actually works. But then I started looking at the lawsuits.

They're almost all about one device. Most RF microneedling devices use insulated needles. That means the energy goes exactly where it should, at the right depth. But the one in the lawsuits uses uninsulated needles.

The energy spreads along the entire shaft. Too shallow causes scarring. Too deep melts fat. It's not about the provider's skill. It's the device itself..

On the Medspa Confidential podcast, I explain the brands in question and exactly why insulated needles matter and what questions to ask before booking.

Part II: When Cheap Botox Lands You in the Hospital

"If your provider is getting Botox cheaper than everyone else, ask yourself why." — Dr. Kate Dee, Med Spa Confidential

Last year, nearly a dozen people were hospitalized with botulism poisoning. One ended up on a ventilator. The FDA traced it back to fake Botox ordered from websites like Alibaba.

Some providers genuinely didn't know they were breaking the law. They saw a website offering Botox at half the price and thought they'd found a deal. Others knew exactly what they were doing and gambled on not getting caught.

Either way, patients paid the price.

It's only legal to buy Botox from Allergan. Dysport from Galderma. Any other source is counterfeit or illegally imported. Even if it's real Botox from Europe, it's not legal here. And you don't know if it was shipped properly or if it's still active.

The FDA finally issued cease-and-desist letters to 14 companies selling fake injectables. But that was November 2025. The hospitalizations happened in early 2024. Over a year later.

In the episode, I went deeper into how to verify your med spa's supply chain and what red flags to watch for.

Part III: This Provider was Calling Herself a Doctor

"A two-year online degree in nursing administration is not medical school. It's not even close." — Dr. Kate Dee, Med Spa Confidential

The woman I almost had on this podcast listed herself as "Dr. Laura" on her website. She claimed to be board certified and the medical director of her spa in South Carolina.

It took me about five minutes to spot three major problems with those claims. I'm not going to pile on nurses. Most are completely honest about their credentials and do incredible work. But what this woman was doing crossed a legal line, and here's why it matters to you.

There's a huge difference between the training doctors go through and what she actually completed. I'm talking years of difference. And when I explain what "board certified" actually means versus how she was using it, you'll understand why this kind of misleading language is more than just annoying. It's dangerous.

Here's what keeps me up at night. Her website looked professional. Her credentials sounded impressive if you didn't know what to look for. Most patients would have trusted her completely.

If someone's willing to misrepresent their qualifications, what else are they misrepresenting?

In the full episode, I break down exactly what I found and show you how to verify credentials before you trust anyone with your face.

The Bottom Line

These three issues connect in a way most people miss. They're all about trust. And right now, the industry makes it too easy for the wrong people to earn yours.

Listen to the full episode to learn the questions that actually protect you.

The transcripts

[00:00:00] Dr. Kate Dee: Today I am talking about RF microneedling injuries, counterfeit Botox, and fake doctors. Issues like these are popping up more and more in aesthetics, and patients are getting hurt because they don't know what to look for. I wanna start with the FDA's new warning on RF.

[00:00:14] Dr. Kate Dee: Microneedling. People are experiencing burns, fat loss, scarring, and most of these injuries come down to the wrong device or the wrong hands. I'll explain what the FDA actually said and how to know if your provider is doing this safely. Then we need to talk about counterfeit Botox this month.

[00:00:29] Dr. Kate Dee: [00:00:30] The FDA just went after a bunch of websites for selling unapproved toxins and fillers. This happened after a slew of people ended up in the hospital with botulism last year. If you get injectables, this part matters. You don't wanna miss the last topic. I almost had a guest on this podcast who claimed to be a doctor, What I found when I checked her credentials is exactly the kind of thing that can put patients at risk, and you should know how to spot it. By the end, you'll know what's safe, what's not, and how to protect yourself every time you [00:01:00] visit a med spa. Let's get into it.

[00:01:01] Dr. Kate Dee: Have you all seen the FDA warning letter about the dangers of RF microneedling? This came out on October 15th, 2025 and I feel the very strong need to set the record straight. Hi, I am Dr. Kate d and I read this FDA letter that was put out to consumers and provider. Warning about serious complications from RF microneedling, including burns scarring, fat loss, disfigurement, and nerve damage, and the need [00:01:30] for surgical repair, even for or medical intervention to the treat these injuries.

[00:01:35] Dr. Kate Dee: So what's going on here? Because that has not been my experience after thousands and thousands of treatments that we've done at GLO MediSpa here in Seattle. So what's going on? Why did the FDA issue this letter? I'm gonna get into all the details here. So first of all. What is RF microneedling and why do we love it so much?

[00:01:55] Dr. Kate Dee: so RF microneedling is the use of radiofrequency energy [00:02:00] delivered through multiple small needles that go into the dermis of the skin, and it produces a large amount of collagen and elastin and can actually thicken and tighten the skin. And it's great to improve the elasticity and the texture of the skin.

[00:02:16] Dr. Kate Dee: It's my number one go-to anti-aging treatment that I do. I've done a previous episode all about RF microneedling with Dr. Judith Borger back. In August of last year of 24. This was season [00:02:30] two episode one. If you wanna find it. And in it we describe everything you need to know about RF microneedling and why we both love the procedure so much.

[00:02:38] Dr. Kate Dee: So my experience has been, you know, we've been doing this for over 10 years now. I've never seen any of these complications in any patient. So what's going on? The only. Complication I've seen related to RF microneedling, I've seen about five cases over 10 years of a [00:03:00] transient hyperpigmentation in patients, mostly Asian patients who have a propensity to hyper pigment with various energy procedures.

[00:03:09] Dr. Kate Dee: They were all transient, meaning they went away in a few months. They were all treatable. No permanent harm was ever done. Never seen any scarring, never seen any fat loss. So why are we seeing this warning letter now? I think there are two big problems in what's going on out there. There are dangerous providers and [00:03:30] then.

[00:03:30] Dr. Kate Dee: There are dangerous devices, so let's get into that. Who are the bad providers? Well, okay, not to beat a dead horse, but we've talked about this on the podcast many times. There are a lot of people out there practicing medicine without a license or they have a license and they're practicing out of the scope of their license with no medical director.

[00:03:50] Dr. Kate Dee: Why is this a big deal? Yes, if the, if used improperly with the wrong energy settings, with the wrong depths. Um, with the wrong [00:04:00] device, these complications could happen. Why does it not happen in my hands and my staff? Well, we use a really great device that is able to be very carefully adjusted to your needs, to your skin.

[00:04:15] Dr. Kate Dee: We change the depth depending on how the skin thick the skin is there. We change the energy settings and we make sure that what we're doing is safe. There are plenty of people out there who think, you know, the more the better, turn up the energy, turn up the depth, [00:04:30] well that's a way to lose your fat and get scarring.

[00:04:33] Dr. Kate Dee: So we're very careful with that. I think it's really, really critical to make sure if you're gonna have this treatment, you go somewhere with qualified experts doing the procedure. Okay, so the second thing okay, is there are bad devices, and I'm gonna go out on a limb here and name the one I'm talking about.

[00:04:51] Dr. Kate Dee: If you. Do a Google search of any of these complications. RF microneedling, or if you do a Google [00:05:00] search of RF microneedling and the word lawsuit, you're gonna come up with lots of lawsuits about one device, and that device is Morpheus eight by a company called InMode. The thing that makes Morpheus different from all the other machines is that it uses uninsulated needles.

[00:05:18] Dr. Kate Dee: Okay, so I'm gonna actually explain to you why that's a big deal. So the machine we use is called Genius, and there are many other machines that have insulated needles where [00:05:30] it allows you to deliver a very precise amount of energy at a precise location in the skin. Okay? The insulation along the needles means that the RF energies deposited only at the tip of the needle.

[00:05:46] Dr. Kate Dee: Okay with Morpheus, the RF energy is delivered all along the entire shaft of the needle. And what that means is it's delivering energy all over the place at the [00:06:00] too shallow and too deep. And that is a recipe for scarring for possibly disfigurement, for, definitely for fat loss, especially if you're too deep.

[00:06:11] Dr. Kate Dee: And honestly a lot more high risk of hyperpigmentation. So I have never liked this device, and I've talked about it. I didn't actually name it in the book, but it's the company that makes it, has a very strong sales team and they convince everybody that it's [00:06:30] the best. Uh, they do a lot of direct to consumer marketing.

[00:06:33] Dr. Kate Dee: A lot of people know about Morpheus, but in my opinion, it's a dangerous device if you Google. Any of the other device names and the word lawsuit, the only thing you will see are patent infringement lawsuits, because these companies are busy suing each other because they are so effective. These treatments are so effective, they want everyone to, you know, use their device.

[00:06:56] Dr. Kate Dee: So there are, there are arguments about patent infringement, but there [00:07:00] haven't been any lawsuits that I can find and please. Go ahead and, and message me if you have a lawsuit that you can find against one of these other devices. But they're all about Morpheus. And so I think that this is really given RF microneedling a bad rap.

[00:07:16] Dr. Kate Dee: I personally love it. I am almost 58 years old and I personally have had about 17 or 18 of these treatments, uh, and I really believe in them and we have been doing it for a long time. I think it's by far the best [00:07:30] anti-aging treatment you can do. It's great for loose hanging skin. It tightens and thickens the skin.

[00:07:35] Dr. Kate Dee: It improves texture and elasticity, and it is definitely safe in the right hands. So always ask. Who is the medical director? Who is going to be doing the procedure, and what kind of license and training do they have? And if you have any questions about that, just don't have the procedure. Just make sure you're going to someone who knows [00:08:00] what they're talking about and ask your provider or your meds spa to get certified by the Meds Spa Board.

[00:08:06] Dr. Kate Dee: You might remember a year ago, there were a bunch of people who were sent to the hospital with botulism poisoning, because of fake Botox that they got from medi spas across the country. the time there were, I believe, 22 people who, uh, had trouble breathing and they were sent to the hospital.

[00:08:23] Dr. Kate Dee: One person ended up on a ventilator. I think it was 11 different states. and what they found was that [00:08:30] people around the country were ordering, fake product off the internet from Alibaba and from these other, sources. And, the problem is that those, those fake products actually had more Botox in the vial than we typically see in America.

[00:08:46] Dr. Kate Dee: And obviously more Botox is dangerous, right? If. The amount of Botox is not regulated and what's in the vial, then potentially you could end up with botulism and not breathe and die, if you get too much of it. [00:09:00] So, the FDA November 5th,they issued cease and desist letters to I think 14 different companies that offer.

[00:09:08] Dr. Kate Dee: These unapproved fake products or products from foreign countries that they're illegally importing into the United States. and issued a warning letter to providers across America not to be ordering, products from those companies because it's dangerous.

[00:09:24] Dr. Kate Dee: So, I wanted to draw attention to a few things. So first of all, if you're a legit [00:09:30] medical spa. You'll know this is not legal. So it is only legal to purchase Botox from Allergan. That's the company that makes Botox. Anything else is, is gonna be fake Botox. It is only legal to buy Dysport from Galderma.

[00:09:45] Dr. Kate Dee: That's the company that makes Dysport and as. Some of you might know that's my favorite neurotoxin. There are several more neurotoxins that are approved in the United States, and there are many more in various countries that are not approved here for various different reasons. It could be that they're [00:10:00] okay, but just haven't been tested enough.

[00:10:01] Dr. Kate Dee: It could be that they're not okay, because the country where they're made is not really regulating that over there. So there's also other, you know, bad actors out there putting labels on things that are not Botox. All. and other medications too. They're putting labels on, uh, you know, a vial and you don't know what's in it.

[00:10:22] Dr. Kate Dee: So if it, if it comes from,China or somewhere across the globe and they put a fake label [00:10:30] on, it says Botox or Dysport or something like that, who knows what's in that. Would you want that injected in you? but places around the country who either know this is illegal, but it's cheap, so they'd rather do it that way, take their chances, or they don't know it's illegal and they see this website on the internet and it's so much cheaper and it's like, oh wow, I didn't know everybody was getting their no wonder, you know, that place down the street's undercutting me.

[00:10:58] Dr. Kate Dee: They're getting it cheaper over there [00:11:00] from this other website. Who knew about that website? I've actually been on Facebook groups where people genuinely ask this question, Hey you guys, where are you getting your fillers from? I got an email from this site and it was listed one of these fake filler sites.

[00:11:14] Dr. Kate Dee: and everybody in the group who already knows is like, you know, Hey, that's illegal. And then the people who didn't know it was illegal are like, wait a minute, I've been getting it from there. Or the person. Well, I'm glad I asked. Okay. But as a consumer, okay, the most important thing is never ever, ever go [00:11:30] to a place that's gonna buy fake Botox or fake filler.

[00:11:33] Dr. Kate Dee: I do think the FDA, it's great that they issued this warning. it's super important for people to keep this in mind. Like, don't, don't, go to one of those places. It's incredibly late. So these cases where people were sent to the hospital, botulism. That happened in the first half of 24, and we are now almost at the end of 25 before the FDA issued any warnings.

[00:11:56] Dr. Kate Dee: Okay? So if you're a provider out there, please [00:12:00] know that there are no good ways to cut corners here. You cannot cut the corner. Okay? So Botox is very expensive. If people are wondering why Botox is so expensive here and why it's so cheap in Brazil. Okay, my friend. You know, her family's in Brazil and she goes and get her Botox there and it's like $4 a unit.

[00:12:17] Dr. Kate Dee: Okay, well it is much cheaper in Brazil, but it's also illegal to import it either through Brazil and I know we've covered this at least once before, but let's say you're taking [00:12:30] actual, real Allergan made Botox that, is in, you know, Europe somewhere.Can you then buy it from a place in Europe and ship it over here?

[00:12:39] Dr. Kate Dee: Well, one that's not legal. So you're avoiding a bunch of taxes. And I hate to say it, tariffs. but that's not legal. The, not only will the FDA, but the US Customs and Border Control are gonna come after you, or could potentially come after you. And they have definitely arrested people for that, but also.

[00:12:56] Dr. Kate Dee: You don't know the trail, how it got here. [00:13:00] So was it, was it shipped in the right kind of container? Um, was it properly temperature controlled? I mean, Botox has to be kept on, on dry ice to ship it. how can you ship that from Europe on dry ice? I mean, dry ice evaporates. It's gone in a day, so it is like not even possible.

[00:13:19] Dr. Kate Dee: Right? So even if somebody said to you, Hey, I've got Botox. It's real Botox, um, and they got it from Europe. Like chances are it's not, potentially not even [00:13:30] active anymore. It's possible, if it warmed up on its journey here from Europe. so, do not ever go to a place that's importing product like that.

[00:13:41] Dr. Kate Dee: And also if your provider don't do it. Please don't do it. It's dangerous. You could send somebody to the hospital, and I'm just talking about Botox here. the sites that the FDA, sent put on notice offer all kinds of injectable products and other kinds of beauty products, all of which are not [00:14:00] legal here.

[00:14:00] Dr. Kate Dee: So don't do it. It's super dangerous. Especially also with filler. If you're putting something you don't know what it is and you get a vascular occlusion, you may not be able to treat it because it might not be hyaluronic acid filler. So, anyway, kudos to the FDA, for actually issuing a warning.

[00:14:17] Dr. Kate Dee: Finally. and I think everybody should keep this in mind, that it is really, really the wrong way to go, whether you're looking for a place to get Botox or whether you're providing Botox to patients.

[00:14:28] Dr. Kate Dee: I was recently approached [00:14:30] by a PR firm to have a doctor on my podcast. I get these emails pretty frequently And it turns out that this particular, doctor was not actually a doctor at all. A quick look at her website and I found. There were actually several things that showed that this provider is really pulling a fast one.

[00:14:48] Dr. Kate Dee: So first of all, she's a nurse practitioner and not a doctor. Uh, and how is it that she's calling herself a doctor? Well, because she has a degree called A DNP or Doctorate of Nursing [00:15:00] Practice. And do DMPs Practice Medicine? No, actually, and it's actually illegal for them to pass themselves off. As doctors, that's, considered fraud like false advertising, right?

[00:15:15] Dr. Kate Dee: So nurses practice nursing and nurse practitioners have an advanced degree called, advanced practice registered nurse, or a PRN, uh, where they practice advanced nursing.and according to the law, they do not and cannot [00:15:30] practice medicine. doctors alone have the license to practice medicine. So why should you care? It's not just that it's not legal, but it is not safe. so I'm gonna get into what it is that's wrong here, And why it should matter to you, okay? Because nurses don't go to medical school. They're not doctors. and even if they have a PhD in nursing, they are, there was actually a, federal court ruling recently, actually just a couple weeks [00:16:00] ago that was, started in, in California.

[00:16:03] Dr. Kate Dee: And that, basically said that nurse practitioners, who have a doctorate in nursing cannot call themselves doctors. I really don't wanna harp on nurses here that this is a very small number of people, mo most nurses don't, don't try to pass themselves off as anything other than who they are.

[00:16:24] Dr. Kate Dee: We have an amazing nursing force, so I don't want people to think that I'm piling on nurses, [00:16:30] but what this is, is a few bad actors. Grabbing money. Okay. I'll explain what this is, but this particular nurse practitioner was in, South Carolina and this is what the email said. we wanted to reach out and recommend Dr. Laura. I'll just leave her last name out. Founder of a wellness clinic in Charleston, South Carolina as a potential guest for the Med Spa Confidential podcast. Laura is Doctorally prepared [00:17:00] board certified family nurse practitioner from the Medical University of South Carolina.

[00:17:06] Dr. Kate Dee: And if you look at her website, the nurse calls herself a doctor. On the website, even though that's not really legal. And she also claims to be the medical director of that spa, which, she cannot actually be because there are actually several states that actually half the states about allow nurse practitioners some degree of independent [00:17:30] practice.

[00:17:30] Dr. Kate Dee: But South Carolina is not one of them. So she can't practice independently in South Carolina at all. She has to have a medical director. Okay. So, and the other thing is there's no such thing as board certification for nurse practitioners. Okay? There is a nursing board and all nurses get their license, from the nursing board, okay?

[00:17:52] Dr. Kate Dee: But that is not the same thing as what board certification means for doctors. Let's jump into this, okay? [00:18:00] What are the big differences here? Why is it a big deal? Can't nurses just do what doctors do you know? I mean, how big a deal is it? I wanna tell you exactly what this woman did to get her DNP degree, okay?

[00:18:14] Dr. Kate Dee: So you know anyone who has an advanced degree, if you have a PhD, which by the way takes seven years, not two. The DNP program that this woman did was a two line, two two year. Online only degree that she [00:18:30] got from the, I guess the Medical University of South Carolina. Okay. I'll give you an example of somebody.

[00:18:37] Dr. Kate Dee: So my high school Latin teacher had a PhD in the classics and his name was Dr. McCall, and we called him Dr. McCall. That's fine, but he wasn't opening up a medical clinic and claiming to be a doctor of medicine. Right. So this, uh, Laura went to the, MUSC DNP program, and I will tell you [00:19:00] what she studied.

[00:19:01] Dr. Kate Dee: So in year one, she studied organizational theory and healthcare management, applied epidemiology and biostatistics. Scientific underpinnings, ev, evidence-based practice, quality and safety, frameworks of leadership.practice inquiry, IRB, applied healthcare economics. You get the idea. Okay? These degrees are designed so that nurses can go into research administration, [00:19:30] teaching academics, okay?

[00:19:32] Dr. Kate Dee: These degrees are not about learning how to practice medicine. and that took two years online. All right, so I'm gonna just tell you what doctors have to go through to become doctors. Okay? So first of all, it's four years of medical school. I'm, I went back to my alma mater, uh, which was Yale Medical School.

[00:19:51] Dr. Kate Dee: And I'm gonna tell you all the things that we had to study just in med school, in the first couple years. So, scientific foundations, [00:20:00] genes and development attacks and defenses, homeostasis, energy and metabolism. connection to the world across lifespan, professional responsibility, anatomy, scientific inquiry, populations and methods, biochemistry, cell biology, diagnostic methods, embryology, genetics, health equity, pathology, pharmacology, and physiology.

[00:20:24] Dr. Kate Dee: That's just. In the beginning. Okay. And then that's before you do any clinical rotations, [00:20:30] which are about two years in the hospital. Okay, so that's four years of medical school. Then doctors do one year of. Internship. I did a year of internship in internal medicine. Then, doctors do a residency, which can be anywhere from three to seven years, sometimes more.

[00:20:49] Dr. Kate Dee: I did four years of residency in radiology, and then many doctors do a fellowship that is optional. I did a one year fellowship in breast imaging, so if you add up my medical [00:21:00] school internship, residency, and fellowship, that was 10 years. Of my life. Okay. So all of that before I could get a job at all as a physician.

[00:21:10] Dr. Kate Dee: Alright, so none of that compares to two years of online, you know, Nursing administration school. Right. And now let's just talk about what is board certification. Okay. Because I think that a lot of people dunno, people know that's really important. Is your doctor board certified? You know the person who [00:21:30] is going to do your heart surgery should be board certified in surgery and have.

[00:21:36] Dr. Kate Dee: Enough training in heart surgery to be able to do heart surgery. Right. Like they have a board certification in cardiothoracic surgery. Okay. Super important, right? Because they know how to do that. I'm gonna tell you what, what my board certification was like in radiology. we had two written exams, one kind of, halfway through the residency.

[00:21:58] Dr. Kate Dee: That was all physics [00:22:00] and then a second written exam, towards the end of residency. That was literally all the rest of radiology. And then there was a third in-person, oral exam, which took all day long. And back in my day, it was in Kentucky. We all did it in Kentucky. But anyway, um, a lot of people failed that and had to retake it.

[00:22:20] Dr. Kate Dee: I mean, it is the culmination of, you know, this 10 year program. To get you to be board certified in a certain subspecialty. So it has a [00:22:30] very huge meaning to doctors. Okay.and so for a nurse practitioner who didn't go to med school to claim that she has board certification, it's just, I mean, it's confusing to the public because how do you know what that means? and it's a little bit like really, like, it's a, it's a little bit offensive to someone who actually did go through the many, many, many, many years of education and training and exam taking [00:23:00] and, and many people having to retake that exam to, to really become, an expert in the, the thing that they do.

[00:23:07] Dr. Kate Dee: And so there is no such thing, um, there is no equivalent in nursing. To what doctors do to become board certified. So for a nurse practitioner to claim that they're a doctor, to claim that they, are board certified to claim that they're the medical director, especially in a state. That has no independent [00:23:30] practice.

[00:23:30] Dr. Kate Dee: It's just fraud. Okay. And, and that person is doing some, you know, they're promoting themselves and I, in this country, it's fine. Self-promotion, no problem with that. But self-promotion should be based on the truth on like, I am an expert, this is what I do. Okay. and you know, it's one thing, you know, a nurse practitioner may do aesthetics all day, every day.

[00:23:55] Dr. Kate Dee: They might be. An amazing expert. There are so many nurse [00:24:00] practitioners and RNs and doctors who are experts and PAs who are experts in aesthetic medicine because we do it all day, every day, and you get really, really good at it. But if you claim to be something that you're not, what else are you lying about?

[00:24:17] Dr. Kate Dee: You can go and look on my website and it says, I'm a radiologist. I'm not a dermatologist, I'm not a plastic surgeon. But I have been doing this, for over 10 [00:24:30] years, and it's all I do. Okay? And now of course I make podcasts, but I think it's really, really important to make sure that the person that you're going to is not.

[00:24:41] Dr. Kate Dee: Lying to you. Okay. So if you see someone who says they're a nurse practitioner and they're board certified, that's really, that's a lie. If you see somebody who says that they're a nurse practitioner, but they're a doctor, that's really a lie. It's a big a lie. As my Latin teacher working at a medical [00:25:00] clinic claiming to be a doctor, it's just extremely misleading.

[00:25:03] Dr. Kate Dee: So make sure that, you know, ask those basic questions. Okay, who's the medical director? And look 'em up, who's my provider? And look 'em up. And don't be fooled by, people claiming to be something that they're not.

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