Aesthetic nurse prescriber Mary White discusses her methods of successfully treating seborrhoeic keratosis with long pulsed alexandrite lasers about seborrhoeic keratoses and requesting removal are becoming more frequent in aesthetic and laser clinics today. I believe this is due to more historic sun damage. Years ago, being tanned was considered to be a sign of ‘lower class’ as it meant you were an outside/manual worker. During the 60s and 70s, celebrities like Coco Chanel made foreign travel and suntans popular, and people started to consider that being tanned was now a desirable feature. I believe we are now seeing the damage that was done decades ago, when sun protection was not widely used. Whilst seborrhoeic keratoses can occur in areas of the body that have not been exposed to sun damage, they are more commonly seen in patients who have a long history of sun exposure, and are…
