Hand Rejuvenation

Hand Rejuvenation is all about making your hands look refreshingly young and getting rid of ageing signs. Over time, hands can begin to become pigmented, lose fat, and become wrinkled. Hand rejuvenation can help to reverse these problems.

Before being allured with the futuristic and simply too-good-to-be-true results, a patient undergoing any kind of hand rejuvenation process should look into its prospects in detail, considering what it can treat and what it cannot, what is your requirement, cost of procedure and realistic expectations from the methods.

To treat various ageing signs on the hands, there are number of hand rejuvenation treatments available.

1. Age-Spots and Pigmentation –
   1. Topical Prescriptions – Sunscreen lotions with UVB and UVA contents, vitamin-A and vitamin-C derivatives help nourish and retain skin texture and moisture. It also prevents sun-damage from over-exposure. But they can treat as far as very superficial wrecks on hand’s skin. They form more of preventive measures than restoration.
   2. Chemical Peels – To treat age-spots and minor brown pigmentation, chemical peels are non-invasive procedure where a medically approved chemical solution is applied to the skin. It removes the upper layer, thus revealing the fresher and younger skin from beneath. Minor discoloration disappears, skin feels firmer and softer.
   3. Microdermabrasion – With the help of tiny-crystals, upper layers of hands’ skin are buffed away revealing the firmer and softer skin. Followed by moisturizing of skin, this non-invasive technique is perfect for rejuvenating hands. Age-spots, fine lines and wrinkles are now the things of past with microdermabrasion.
   4. Intense Pulse Light – IPL uses multi-wavelength laser to penetrate into deeper layers of skin to stimulate collagen production. This reduces the dark spots of pigmentation and also helps in veins fading and removal of fine lines from upper skin. This procedure does not removes upper layers like other treatments. And only focuses on pigmented areas, if one for pigmentation only, leaving the normal skin as it is.
2. Wrinkles and Fine Lines – Fractional carbon dioxide laser and plasma skin regeneration can be used at low energy levels to rejuvenate the backs of the hands. Plasma energy non-specifically heats the skin, which stimulates collagen production. This in turn reduces wrinkles and tightens skin.
3. Fat Changes at Back-Hand –
   1. Structural Fat Grafting – A trained plastic surgeon only can perform fat transfer to the back of hands, which has lost considerable volume due to ageing. Fats are transferred from other parts of body to the hands to get rid of bony looks, restoring the original volume and projecting youthfulness.
   2. Dermal Fillers or Injectable – These injectable, fat or collagen, are placed in the back of hand. They have similar outcomes as fat transfer. The additional benefit of using fillers is that they also helps in fading of protruding veins. The thin structure of hands disappears and younger looking hands emerge, hiding away the age signs.

Our hands need more than just occasional washing to stay in their best shape. Most of us concentrate on our faces, hair, teeth and so on but our average beauty regimen pays little attention to our hands even though, it is our hands that give away our age before our faces do. Many patients notice a discrepancy between their rejuvenated face and the aged appearance of their hands. Our hands work for us every day and because of that are subjected to more wear and tear than we care to admit. It is for these reasons that cosmetic hand rejuvenation is becoming more and more popular.