Photoageing is the effect of sun exposure superimposed upon intrinsic ageing, yielding histological, clinical and functional changes that may affect life quality, cause disease and mortality.1-3 Intrinsically aged skin presents in old age as pale, dry, less elastic, with fine wrinkles and exaggerated dynamic lines. This article examines the literature to help aesthetic practitioners in developing an understanding of typical solutions for patients with photoaged skin.
Chronic sun exposure causes 80% of facial skin ageing and affects habitually exposed areas including the face, neck, chest, dorsum of the hands, and forearms.4,5 Photoaged skin may present from the late teens with deep wrinkles, rough texture, dryness, dyschromia (freckling and lentigines), sallowness, actinic keratoses, telangiectasias, solar comedones, elastosis, sebaceous hyperplasia and an increased cutaneous neoplasm…
