AESTHETIC AND ANATOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE AGING SKIN

One of the most interesting medical conditions that now afflicts the b aby boomer generation is photoaging. Clinical signs of photoaging of t he skin include rhytids, lentigines, keratoses, telangiectasia, loss o f translucency, loss of elasticity, and sallow color. A systematic cla ssification of patient photoaging types has been developed by the auth or: type I, ''no wrinkles''; type II, ''wrinkles in motion''; type III , ''wrinkles at rest''; and type IV, ''only wrinkles.'' The intent is to organize the discussion of therapies for photodamaged skin to permi t rational comparisons of therapies and clinical results. Copyright (C ) 1996 by W.B. Saunders Company.