Your hands age gradually, yet many people discover that the change seems to occur suddenly. One day, you notice that your hands look decades older than your actual age.
By the time you feel embarrassed about aging hands, your usual moisturizing routine won’t help. But you don’t need to live with unattractive hands.
Rafael C. Cabrera, MD, FACS, at Plastic Surgery Specialists of Boca Raton, restores your hands’ youthful appearance with innovative hand rejuvenation procedures. Here’s what you need to know about aging hands and our revitalizing treatment that gives you the confidence of beautiful hands.
Changes inside your body cause hand aging. Additionally, external challenges dramatically accelerate the aging process. Daily activities, detergents, and water injure your protective skin barrier, while exposure to sunlight causes dehydration and irreversible skin damage.
The following conditions lead to hands that look old before their time:
Age spots, also called liver spots, are isolated patches of skin that darken over years of unprotected sun exposure. These unattractive spots vary in size, often enlarge over time, and won’t disappear without treatment.
A thin layer of fat lies below your skin, creating a soft cushion that gives your hands a healthy appearance. As you get older, the fat thins out, contributing to aging and allowing veins and tendons to become visible and bulge out.
Losing the fat cushion affects the skin on the back of your hand, but it’s not the only challenge. The skin’s strength, moisture, and elasticity continuously decrease as you age.
Though diligent skin care can slow these changes, you can’t stop them. They occur because your skin naturally produces less collagen, hyaluronic acid, and elastin.
As a result, your skin loosens, becomes thin and fragile, and develops wrinkles and a crepey appearance — problems you can’t improve no matter how often you apply hand cream.
When you decide to reverse the telltale signs of aging, all you need to do is schedule a consultation to learn about our cutting-edge hand rejuvenation options.
Here’s a rundown of our most popular and effective hand treatments:
Injectable dermal fillers such as Restylane® Lyft™ and Radiesse® restore lost fullness and smooth away wrinkles by replacing the fat cushion. Both fillers produce immediate results by plumping the area. Radiesse also triggers collagen production, which gives you longer-lasting results.
Photofacials use intense pulsed light (IPL) and multiple light waves to eliminate age spots and other skin discolorations. As dark spots absorb the light energy, they break down, and your body clears away the pieces.
IPL also tightens and strengthens your skin. During your treatment, heat from the light reaches below the skin’s surface and increases the production of collagen, elastin, and hyaluronic acid.
Our comprehensive hand rejuvenation procedure combines dermal fillers with a photofacial. This combined therapy only takes about 40 minutes and addresses all of your hand concerns.
Fat grafting may be a good option if you also wish to eliminate excess fat in your abdomen, upper thighs, or buttocks.
During fat grafting, we use liposuction to carefully and aesthetically remove the unwanted fat. Then, we clean the fat and inject it into your hands, placing it under the skin like a dermal filler, to add volume.
Over time, the living fat cells take hold and continue to thrive, restoring the cushion and reducing the appearance of bulging veins and wrinkles.
Fat grafting requires gentle care during your recovery, but the fat can last throughout your lifetime.
By comparison, you can return to all activities the day after getting a filler or photofacial, but you’ll eventually need to repeat those treatments to maintain your results.
During your consultation, we can recommend the best treatments based on the age-related changes in your hands.
You don’t need to keep living with unattractive hands. Contact Plastic Surgery Specialists of Boca Raton today to schedule an appointment and learn about your hand rejuvenation options.
