Just like their faces, hands often show signs of aging too – age spots, brittle nails, wrinkles and dry skin are among the more frequent complaints about hands.
There are numerous methods available to reverse the appearance of aging hands. Consultation with a plastic surgeon will assist in selecting an effective treatment option tailored specifically for you.
Vein Reduction
As we age, the natural fat layer that protects and conceals veins in our hands gradually reduces, becoming increasingly visible over time and leading to bulging appearances in your fingers. While these changes don’t usually pose serious health concerns, they may make your hands appear worn-down and aged – though there are procedures available that can reverse their appearance and help restore youthful fullness to skin.
Sclerotherapy is the most efficient way to remove prominent hand veins without surgery, using minimally invasive medical procedures like injection of sclerosant solution into overtly visible veins in your hands. This causes them to collapse and close off, allowing blood to continue flowing through healthier vessels – eventually, the affected vein will fade from view, leaving no trace of bulging hand veins behind.
At your sclerotherapy session, a physician will review your medical history and perform a physical exam of both hands, with special care given to checking for serious conditions that could impede blood flow, such as blood clots. They may also suggest performing an ultrasound exam to visualize the condition of veins and identify potential issues.
Filler injections may also help diminish visible veins on your hands, and a board-certified plastic surgeon with experience using fillers on hands can advise the best course of action in your situation. One such filler, calcium hydroxylapatite (pronounced hi-drox-elap-ah-tight), has been FDA-approved and shown to improve skin texture over time.
If other treatments fail, your doctor may suggest surgical removal of the varicose vein in your hand. During this procedure, they will make small incisions to access the targeted vein and use special tools to extract it safely and minimize scarring. After an extended recovery period has passed, most normal activities should resume; however contact sports and physically demanding activities should be avoided in order to prevent bleeding or bruising.
Filler Injections
People tend to focus on facial rejuvenation when considering wrinkles and volume loss; but often forget their hands. Now this issue has been addressed as Galderma’s Restylane Lyft injection has been approved by the FDA as the first of its kind specifically targeted towards hand rejuvenation; helping reverse signs of aging hands by replenishing lost fullness back into skin.
Similar to how dermal fillers are administered on the face, an experienced physician will inject filler under the skin to plump up areas affected by veins, bones and other signs of ageing. Results typically appear immediately and last up to one year with routine touch-up sessions required in order to maintain them.
Based on your desired results, a doctor will select the optimal type of filler to use. Hyaluronic acid (HA) fillers are often chosen because they work on all skin types quickly and effortlessly while providing natural-looking results. Hyaluronic acid fillers may even be combined with laser treatments or surgical procedures for additional improvements.
Calcium hydroxylapatite (hi-drox-elap-ah-tight), a mineral-like substance found within our bodies that can reduce fine lines and wrinkles, is another option for hand rejuvenation. This filler has longer-term benefits, lasting up to one year before needing replenishment.
Filler injection is accomplished through one of several techniques: tenting, serial puncture, tunneling or linear retrograde threading. After injection has taken place, your doctor may massage the area to ensure an even distribution without lumps or bruising forming; additionally they will instruct you how to care for your hands post procedure, including refraining from strenuous activity and excessive heat exposure for 24 hours post procedure.
Combining peels and dermal fillers is an effective and safe solution for treating aging hands. Peels help lighten dark spots and improve skin texture, while fillers restore volume and produce collagen production to make hands appear smoother. Furthermore, this combination also has the added advantage of protecting against further sun damage as both peels and fillers protect skin from further harm.
Fat Transfer
Fat transfer utilizes your body’s natural resources to improve skin quality and reverse hand aging. This sophisticated procedure involves injecting purified fat harvested from other areas such as abdomen or thighs into hollows to fill them, reduce fine lines and wrinkles, conceal veins or tendons for an overall youthful look and feel.
Aging can make hands bony and expose their underlying tissue, but this treatment offers a subtle yet effective change to blend in with their appearance and match its youthful facial expression. Regenerative qualities of fat injection also help strengthen skin elasticity and firmness for soft, healthy-looking results.
Fat grafting techniques used in this treatment enable precise placement of extracted or regenerated fat for an ideal, natural-looking aesthetic that lasts three to five years or more without the need for touch ups.
Experienced practitioners can use this procedure to reverse some of the signs of aging, including thin or sunken skin and protruding veins. Furthermore, its regenerative properties enhance skin elasticity and firmness to create more youthful-looking supple, smooth and healthier-looking skin that looks younger than before.
Though this rejuvenation solution won’t provide immediate results, when combined with laser therapy or topical treatments it can increase their efficacy and enhance final outcomes. By using fat from within the body for this procedure it reduces allergic reactions while offering more sustainable and natural-looking results than traditional fillers that degrade over time.
Fat transfer can be performed as an outpatient procedure, enabling patients to return home the same day and resume their daily lives without disruption. You should expect some mild redness and swelling at injection sites following treatment; these effects should typically subside within days or so. Regenerative properties of injected fat may cause your hands to appear slightly puffy afterward but this should resolve itself with time as healed areas heal more.
Skin Resurfacing
Hand rejuvenation treatments not only reduce the prominence of veins and bones while improving tone and texture of thin crepey skin, they can also lighten age spots and sun damage. Resurfacing techniques like chemical peels, dermabrasion and photofacial laser therapy remove damaged outer layers to reveal smoother complexions with younger-looking complexions.
Age spots (also referred to as sun spots) are small brown patches of pigmentation caused by extended sun exposure. While these marks are harmless, they do make hands appear older or unhealthy – fortunately these dark marks can be easily treated using medical-grade chemical peels and dermal fillers.
Waterlase ReNew Skin Resurfacing system utilizes advanced fractional laser technology that removes the topmost layer of skin to diminish age spots, sun damage and uneven tone. This non-invasive procedure has minimal downtime.
Waterlase ReNew Skin Resurfacing system offers another effective and gentle option to improve hand wrinkles and skin tone: its revolutionary technology offers immediate results. The Waterlase ReNew handpiece delivers 10 microbeams of laser energy at once for an effective yet gentle treatment that minimizes downtime and complications.
The Waterlase ReNew Handpiece is FDA-approved for noninvasive and minimally invasive use and has received favorable feedback from patients in both cosmetic medicine and dentistry. With features that make it suitable for hand use – such as its high-speed motor which enables quick, precise treatments – the Waterlase ReNew Handpiece stands out.
Hand skin can often reveal one’s age. Unfortunately, as we age our fat padding diminishes over time exposing tendons and veins giving your hands a bony appearance. Silk Touch Cosmetic Surgery, Lipo & Medspa in Boise offers several cosmetic treatments designed to combat the signs of aging in hands and restore them back to their healthy, youthful look – contact us now to learn more about what services we can provide for you.
