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Possibilities for Assessing Facial Skin Structure using Ultrasound
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, OMURZAKOVA ALIYA TURATBEKOVNA, IZRANOV VLADIMIR ALEKSANDROVICH
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Introduction: Skin ultrasound is a non-invasive, painless, easy-to-use evaluation method. Ultrasound devices are increasingly becoming an integral part of equipment used in aesthetic medicine and cosmetology, including areas for the age-related skin changes correction. However, there are no ultrasound parameters standards for facial skin aging assessing and invasive cosmetic procedures results evaluation.
The aim of our investigation was to provide ultrasound examination of all skin layers thickness in different face areas in women.
Materials and methods: The thickness of different skin layers (epidermis, dermis, hypodermis) was measured in the area of the interbrow zone, chin, nasolabial folds and cheeks (salivary gland) in 71 patients aged 15-75 years (average age 40.9±1.4 years) using an ultrasound scanner Mindray DC-8. The study was carried out in Department of Fundamental Medicine of the Baltic Federal University named after Kant. Statistical processing for the study results was performed in Microsoft Excel 2017 using average values (M), the reliability was determined using Student's criterion, and its critical level in this study was taken to be 0.05.
Results: The thickness of the epidermis was minimal in the nasolabial fold (0.39 mm) and the maximum (0.43mcm) in the chin. The thickness of the dermis was maximum in the interbrow zone (0.81 mm) and the smallest in the chin (0.62 mm). The thickness of the hypodermis was the biggest in the salivary glands (cheeks) (1.36 mm and 1.37 mm to the right and left, respectively), the smallest hypoderm thickness was recorded in the chin area (0.19 mm). A thickening of the dermis was established in patients after 40 years in all anatomical areas of the face with the achievement of a statistically significant difference in the nasolabial folds (p = 0.027) and cheeks (p = 0.01). It was found that the dermis was thickened in patients who used fillers in all anatomical areas of the face with a statistically significant (p <0.05) difference in the nasolabial folds.
Conclusion: Until now, little attention has been paid to the study of age-related changes and some pathological lesions in the face skin by using ultrasound, so there are no standard parameters for assessing its thickness, which requires further research.
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facial skin, epidermis, dermis, hypodermis, age, ultrasound examination of the skin, women older than 40 years, fillers.
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2020.SP2.308
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