Backed by good genes and healthy lifestyle habits, your careful and consistent skin care regimen has paid off as you’ve gotten older: Your complexion is smooth, even, and glowing — and it doesn’t offer even the slightest hint of what your true age might be.
Unfortunately, your aging hands aren’t hiding anything.
Luckily, there’s an easy way to turn back the hands of time, and our seasoned team of antiaging experts at Manhattan Dermatology is here to help. Read on to learn how an advanced dermal filler called Radiesse® can rejuvenate your aging hands.
Skin aging is a natural and inevitable part of getting older. But while you might focus on preventing or combatting common signs of highly visible facial skin aging, it’s another area of skin — on the backs of your hands — that tends to show the signs of aging at an early and often more accelerated rate. Here’s why:
The skin on the backs of your hands is thinner than most other skin areas. When the main protein building blocks — collagen and elastin — that make up your epidermal tissues start to decline with age, the skin on your hands is one of the first places to show it.
The skin on the backs of your hands is also exposed to the sun’s damaging ultraviolet (UV) light more than most other skin areas. If you don’t protect it with sunscreen each day, that exposure can accelerate the breakdown of collagen and elastin — making age-related skin sagging and thinning even more noticeable.
Dry air, hot water, frequent handwashing, and chemical irritants — as one of your most high-use body parts, your hands are routinely exposed to harsh conditions or influences. This can make the skin that covers them age earlier and faster.
The skin on the backs of your hands also loses plumpness and fullness as its collagen and elastin building blocks dwindle. This can make the structures beneath your skin — in this case, blood vessels and bones — look more prominent, and leave your skin looking older.
Treating your hands with Radiesse — an injectable filler consisting of calcium hydroxylapatite (CaHA) suspended in an aqueous gel — gives them a more youthful appearance by:
With a few tiny, well-placed injections on the back of your hands, the Radiesse CaHA gel matrix delivers instant skin-plumping improvement. Then, once inside your skin, the filler’s gel carrier breaks down, allowing the freed CaHA particles to form a fibroblast-stimulating scaffold that powerfully fosters increased collagen and elastin production.
As this new, firm network of collagen and elastin fibers actively replaces the instant filler correction of the gel carrier, you see smoother, plumper skin built on a strong epidermal structure that’s renewed from the inside out.
Radiesse hand rejuvenation results typically last for about a year (and sometimes longer). Annual touch-up appointments can keep your hands looking youthful indefinitely.
If you’d like to restore a more youthful appearance to your hardworking hands, look no further than Radiesse — a comprehensive cosmetic dermatological solution that can turn back the hands of time in an instant, and keep them there for a year or longer.
To schedule your hand rejuvenation consultation at Manhattan Dermatology, call your nearest office in Manhattan’s Murray Hill or Midtown East, New York City, today, or book an appointment online at your convenience.
