Although the skin on our hands ages at the same rate as the face, the ageing process is different and requires a combination of professional treatment and an at-home regimen to maintain and expand these results.
Nothing is more startling than a woman with a flawless facial complexion and mottled, bony hands with bulging veins. The leading causes of hand photoaging are epidermal changes, such as actinic keratoses, fine wrinkles, and crepe-like textural changes and lentigines.
Nothing is more startling than a woman with a flawless facial complexion and mottled, bony hands with bulging veins. The leading causes of hand photoaging are epidermal changes, such as actinic keratoses, fine wrinkles, and crepe-like textural changes and lentigines.
Hands, like the face, are the body parts exposed all year round, so the dermis layer and subcutaneous fat thinning occur due to ultraviolet light exposure and intrinsic ageing. This can lead to a skeletal-like appearance of the hands and prominent veins.
In the dermis, the quality and quantity of collagen and elastin diminishes, and the capacity for regeneration declines. With its attendant bruising, capillary fragility is also expected and primarily caused by UV light damage to the capillary walls.
However, unlike the face, the hand has relatively few sebaceous glands, eccrine glands, and hair follicles. This fact is essential in planning a series of peels and different laser treatments because the hands have less capacity to replace the epidermis so pigmentary alterations may develop during the healing process.
Although laser rejuvenation shows excellent results in treating lentigines (liver spots), it is vital to use a wavelength that targets the appropriate skin chromophore for treatment to be effective and to avoid unwanted adverse effects. A broad spectrum of wavelengths, such as triple waves laser, can be used because melanin has a wide absorbance range.
Although laser rejuvenation shows excellent results in treating lentigines (liver spots), it is vital to use a wavelength that targets the appropriate skin chromophore for treatment to be effective and to avoid unwanted adverse effects. A broad spectrum of wavelengths, such as triple waves laser, can be used because melanin has a wide absorbance range.
