Keep Your Hands, and Your Look, Young
New Treatments Help Your Hands Lie About Your Age
When it comes to showing how old you are, the hands have it. The back of the hand is far more telling at revealing age than the face or neck.
Fortunately, new technologies are resulting in treatments that can reveal those telltale signs of age, such as brown spots and thinning skin.
Dermatologist Dee Anna Glaser, MD, unveiled the latest advances in treatment for aging hands at the Summer 2011 meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology. Glaser, who heads the department of dermatology at Saint Louis University, presented new technologies such as fillers which restore volume, often using the patient's own fat, and laser treatments that can improve texture and skin tone.
Younger looking hands can go a long way to preventing a look of aging, as they often age quicker than the face and other parts of the body. The hands tend to lose their firmness over the years, making veins and tendons more pronounced.
Also, those dreaded brown "age spots" begin appearing, which instantly give away a person's age - sometimes disproportionately.
Glaser explained how dermatologists are now using these new technologies, many of which have been used to treat the face in the past, to restore youthfulness to the hands.
Injecting fillers is a one-step, in-office procedure that requires no anesthetic and takes about 20 to 30 minutes. Laser treatment is applied to one small section of the hand at a time, requiring about a week to 10 days before results start showing.
Glaser stresses that the best treatment of all against skin aging is prevention, by regularly using sunscreen with an SPF of at least 30.
Fortunately, new technologies are resulting in treatments that can reveal those telltale signs of age, such as brown spots and thinning skin.
Dermatologist Dee Anna Glaser, MD, unveiled the latest advances in treatment for aging hands at the Summer 2011 meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology. Glaser, who heads the department of dermatology at Saint Louis University, presented new technologies such as fillers which restore volume, often using the patient's own fat, and laser treatments that can improve texture and skin tone.
Younger looking hands can go a long way to preventing a look of aging, as they often age quicker than the face and other parts of the body. The hands tend to lose their firmness over the years, making veins and tendons more pronounced.
Also, those dreaded brown "age spots" begin appearing, which instantly give away a person's age - sometimes disproportionately.
Glaser explained how dermatologists are now using these new technologies, many of which have been used to treat the face in the past, to restore youthfulness to the hands.
Injecting fillers is a one-step, in-office procedure that requires no anesthetic and takes about 20 to 30 minutes. Laser treatment is applied to one small section of the hand at a time, requiring about a week to 10 days before results start showing.
Glaser stresses that the best treatment of all against skin aging is prevention, by regularly using sunscreen with an SPF of at least 30.
Published by Shelley Seale
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