Are Women More Prone to Facial Wrinkles Than Men?
This might not surprise you, but a recent study has shown that facial wrinkles are far more prevalent in women than they are in men.
This may bode well for the anti-aging industry, which can use this knowledge to develop new treatments for facial wrinkles specifically geared for women, now that it's known they are more prone to them.
Here's what was found when it came to women and facial wrinkles.
Specifically, one study, just published in the Aesthetic Surgery Journal, found that there were differences most notably in the skin surrounding the mouth that caused it to wrinkle more deeply in women than in men.
The study was recently presented at the annual meeting of the European Association of Plastic Surgeons last May, in Spain.
The study's lead author, Emma C Paes, M.
D.
, is from the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery at the University Medical Center in Utrecht, Netherlands.
She underscores that this new study may help in the development of new treatments and strategies "for the treatment of perioral wrinkles," the wrinkles that occur around the mouth.
Specifics of the study: The skin surface in the upper lip region was replicated for 10 male and 10 female cadavers who were aged 75 to 93; this was done to determine how deeply and how much perioral wrinkling occurred in the area.
In addition, fresh cadavers (15 each male and female) had three full thickness lip resections taken and then studied in "blind" fashion.
Here's what the examinations and study found: •For women, the skin around the mouth has fewer sebaceous (glands that produce an oily waxy substance called sebum that lubricate skin and hair) and sweat glands in the area; this could negatively influence how the dermis (skin) naturally fills.
•The skin around the mouth also has fewer blood vessels in women and therefore has less vascularity than is true in men, which means wrinkles could develop faster.
•Finally, muscular fibers attached around the mouth and to the dermis for women may cause greater inward traction, which can cause deeper wrinkles than those that occur with men.
Although there are current treatments for these types of facial wrinkles as part of an anti-aging regimen, the study may give traction to the development of other treatments, and to making current treatments more effective.
Current treatments, such as botulism injections (Botox) and injectable wrinkle fillers to treat wrinkles around the perioral region have modest results at best; these wrinkles remain challenging to treat.
In addition, more invasive plastic surgeries like to dermabrasion or facelifts do not specifically target perioral wrinkles, and therefore have only been modestly successful in treating them.
Dr.
Paes said of the study, "We think it's important to consider the reasons why a particular treatment may or may not be effective...
Sometimes one has to go back to the basics instead of just moving forward.
In the end, having more basic knowledge about a problem can speed up the process of finding the right solution.
" Exciting news for the antiaging world, indeed.
This may bode well for the anti-aging industry, which can use this knowledge to develop new treatments for facial wrinkles specifically geared for women, now that it's known they are more prone to them.
Here's what was found when it came to women and facial wrinkles.
Specifically, one study, just published in the Aesthetic Surgery Journal, found that there were differences most notably in the skin surrounding the mouth that caused it to wrinkle more deeply in women than in men.
The study was recently presented at the annual meeting of the European Association of Plastic Surgeons last May, in Spain.
The study's lead author, Emma C Paes, M.
D.
, is from the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery at the University Medical Center in Utrecht, Netherlands.
She underscores that this new study may help in the development of new treatments and strategies "for the treatment of perioral wrinkles," the wrinkles that occur around the mouth.
Specifics of the study: The skin surface in the upper lip region was replicated for 10 male and 10 female cadavers who were aged 75 to 93; this was done to determine how deeply and how much perioral wrinkling occurred in the area.
In addition, fresh cadavers (15 each male and female) had three full thickness lip resections taken and then studied in "blind" fashion.
Here's what the examinations and study found: •For women, the skin around the mouth has fewer sebaceous (glands that produce an oily waxy substance called sebum that lubricate skin and hair) and sweat glands in the area; this could negatively influence how the dermis (skin) naturally fills.
•The skin around the mouth also has fewer blood vessels in women and therefore has less vascularity than is true in men, which means wrinkles could develop faster.
•Finally, muscular fibers attached around the mouth and to the dermis for women may cause greater inward traction, which can cause deeper wrinkles than those that occur with men.
Although there are current treatments for these types of facial wrinkles as part of an anti-aging regimen, the study may give traction to the development of other treatments, and to making current treatments more effective.
Current treatments, such as botulism injections (Botox) and injectable wrinkle fillers to treat wrinkles around the perioral region have modest results at best; these wrinkles remain challenging to treat.
In addition, more invasive plastic surgeries like to dermabrasion or facelifts do not specifically target perioral wrinkles, and therefore have only been modestly successful in treating them.
Dr.
Paes said of the study, "We think it's important to consider the reasons why a particular treatment may or may not be effective...
Sometimes one has to go back to the basics instead of just moving forward.
In the end, having more basic knowledge about a problem can speed up the process of finding the right solution.
" Exciting news for the antiaging world, indeed.
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