Beauty Doc Blog

When we think of the signs of aging, we often think of the face. Wrinkles, sun spots, saggy skin… it all begins to show as we get older around the eyes, forehead, nose, mouth and neck. But the area of our body that is often overlooked until it actually does begin to show the signs of aging is the hand. This area too becomes wrinkly, loses a lot of its volume and can show veins, sun spots and other unsightly blemishes as we age.

Because we use our hands for everything from minor home improvements to applying our facial skin cream, they are exposed to a wide variety of chemicals, environmental damage, callouses, and other damaging factors. This can often result in hands that look older than even our faces as we age.

Cosmetic surgery offers a variety of procedures to bring back the youth to your hands. Depending on the aspect of your hands that you would most like to see improved, your surgeon may recommend anything from topical hand cream to vein surgery.

If you have a large amount of sun spots, age spots, or darker pigmentation areas on your hand, you can opt for a chemical peel or microdermabrasion. These procedures will remove the outer layers of skin that have the most damage, and promote the healthy growth of new skin without the tell-tale signs of aging.

You can also undergo a sclerotherapy procedure. This is used to rid your hands of prominent blue veins that make them look old and frail. A surgeon will inject the vein or veins with a chemical that will irritate the vein until it turns white and fades away with time.

Laser skin resurfacing techniques can also be used to send short bursts of laser energy through the surface skin on your hand. This will affect deeper tissue, and can be used to target veins, age or sun spots and unhealthy-looking skin.

If your hands suffer from a thin, bony look, you can ask your surgeon if injectables might be the way to go. Your surgeon can inject fillers into your hands to give them a more full, plump and young appearance, and rid you of that frail appearance.

You can also get younger looking hands through some more invasive procedures. A qualified surgeon can perform fat grafting to permanently fill out your hands, skin excess correction to remove loose and saggy skin, invasive vein removal and several other procedures.

You hands don’t have to give your age away. If you feel younger than your hands look, talk to a board certified cosmetic surgeon and see which procedure or set of procedures can help you regain your once youthful hands.