Pigmentation
Pigmentation means coloring.
Skin pigmentation disorders affect the color of your skin. Your skin gets its color from a pigment called melanin. Special cells in the skin make melanin. When these cells become damaged or unhealthy, it affects melanin production. Some pigmentation disorders affect just patches of skin. Others affect your entire body.
If your body makes too much melanin, your skin gets darker. Pregnancy, Addison’s disease, and sun exposure all can make your skin darker. If your body makes too little melanin, your skin gets lighter. Vitiligo is a condition that causes patches of light skin. Albinism is a genetic condition affecting a person’s skin. A person with albinism may have no color, lighter than normal skin color, or patchy missing skin color. Infections, blisters and burns can also cause lighter skin.
The different types of pigmentation problems. From the age of 30, a number of women develop pigmentation irregularities on their skin. This can be the result of different problems:
- Lentigo, is also called age spots if it is mainly due to the intrinsic ageing of the skin, or solar lentigo if it is caused by regular and considerable sun exposure.
- Melasma, generally due to hormone imbalances. This can occur when taking certain medicines, or can be caused by sun exposure during pregnancy when no protection is worn. This is called pregnancy mask.
- Liver spots, also called ephelids.
- Post-inflammatory pigmentation, following an acne spot for example. The mark is then due to an excess of melanin produced by the inflammation.
While these marks are completely harmless, they can be unsightly.
ORIGINS
When melanin production is disrupted…The sun, skin ageing and genetics are among the main factors that influence skin pigmentation. In fact, from the age of 30, they can cause disruption to the production and distribution mechanism of melanin, the pigment that is responsible for the skin’s colouring. Melanin is therefore distributed unevenly in the skin and accumulates at the surface of the epidermis. Outcome: skin pigmentation becomes uneven and dark spots form on the surface.
TREATMENTS
Combating hyperpigmentationTo prevent dark spots from appearing and regain a radiant and even complexion, it is important to adopt a good daily skin care regime:
- Each morning apply an anti-dark spot treatment to the face and neck. The formation of hyperpigmentations is a continuous process that requires daily treatment.
- Protect your skin from the sun’s rays using UVA and UVB sun protection, and choose one with a high factor if significant sun exposure is likely. The sun is the overriding factor in the appearance and worsening of dark spots. Protecting yourself from it is therefore the basis of any treatment.
We also recommend various techniques for correcting dark spots :
Lasers ( NGL)
Peeling treatments ( DR .MESO organic peeling system)
Product ( DR. MESO whitening cream with SPF 30)
Dr. Meso Pigmentation Treatment via Dr. Meso electroporation
Glutathion infusion
We can make an accurate diagnosis and offer you a suitable treatment for the type of pigmentation and or dark spot concerns you have.