Varicose veins are thick, blue, unsightly veins that develop on the lower extremities. These appear mostly in your 30’s to 70’s and affect women more than men. Varicose veins are often accompanied by spider veins, red to blue thread-like veins that often form mats or spider web-like patterns. These vein abnormalities are usually just cosmetic in nature, but can sometimes be symptomatic causing aching or throbbing. There are many ways to treat varicose veins. Here I will review one of the oldest and most popular methods: sclerotherapy ...more
I see a lot of tattoos in clinic. They tend to be of three varities: old men with vintage war-time tattoos, young men with authentic NBA-style tattoos, and women who want to know how they can get rid of their tattoos.
It might be that despite there are increasing numbers of women getting tattoos (some reports claim that 65% of people who get tattoos are women), there is also more social pressure for women to remove them ...more
Women will spend thousands of dollars on surgeries, laser treatments, Botox, fillers, even night creams, all to make their faces look younger. But sometimes their hands give away their true age.
Although your face is your most important feature in determining your age, your hands are a not distant second. Hands covered in brown spots, fine lines, paper thin skin, and hollowed out spaces might belie your wrinkle free face and pouty lips ...more
As we age, the thick collagen layer of the skin (the layer that leather is made from) atrophies or thins out. This is due to normal aging processes where breakdown of collagen and elastin (the proteins that makes skin spring back when stretched) is not balanced with production of new collagen and elastin ...more
