Skin aging
Skin aging is related to the inescapable aging of the whole organism. Aging is irreversible. However, aging rate depends on genetic predispositions, lifestyle, diet, and everyday skin care.
The basic symptom of skin aging are wrinkles. Wrinkles can be divided into four groups:
- mimic (caused by facial mimic muscle movements)
- wrinkles caused by the sun (harmful influence of the ultraviolet)
- sleep lines (resulting from the way you rest your head on a pillow at night)
- wrinkles caused by gravity (cause by a skin aging physiological process).
The aging rate may be dependant upon:
- extrinsic factors (effects of the ultraviolet, smoking, excessive alcohol drinking)
- intrinsic factors (physiological changes in the body)
Organism aging process, including skin aging, progresses with age, and following menopause, due to hormonal changes, accelerates rapidly. Skin damaged by extrinsic factors (the sun) is dry and sallow, with small line and deep wrinkles, very often accompanies by freckles, melanin spots, small discolourations, and benign tumor alterations. Aging cause by intrinsic factors is an inevitable physiological process, characterised by changes which disturb cell physiology. Old skin from the inside is dry and pale, covered with small, shallow wrinkles and susceptible to irritation.
There is no one, universal anti-aging method. The first step is the identification of the type of aging. The second step is the selection of the method which could slow down or stop this process effectively. Such a method may involve every day skin care products or aesthetic medicine procedures (peels, mezotherapy, wrinkles removal).
We can distinguish several types of skin aging:
- photoaging: appears before 35 years; caused by excessive exposure to the sun ray's without adequate protection,
- chronoaging: appears between 35 and 50 years of age; caused by flow of time; manifested by mimic wrinkles, loss of skin elasticity, jaw line diminishes,
- hormonal: appears after 50 years of age; skin is dry and rough, vertical lines in the lower part of face, limpness, neck folds.
dr Ivana Stankovic
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Skin aging
