Prevent skin ageing

Skin ageing can be reduced by careful attention to your lifestyle, and the following is a summary of the areas that Cosmederm thinks should be given the most attention to avoid sun damage in later years.

  • Prevent solar damage
  • Avoidance of pollutants
  • Stop smoking
  • Reduce alcohol consumption
  • Pay attention to diet
  • Regular skin care
  • Regular exercise programme
All patient photos been taken by our staff; the photos are genuine untouched images, and the original polaroid photos are available for inspection.
Cosmetic Procedures
Cosmederm provide a wide range of anti-ageing and cosmetic treatments provided by Dr. Thomas Nel including; 
  • Botox
  • Dermal Fillers including:
    • Restylane
    • Perlane
    • New Fill
    • Sculptura
    • Collagen
  • Non Surgical Treatments
  • Skin Age Assessment Advice on Photo Damage
  • Lip Enhancements
  • Nose & Mouth Fine Line Reduction
  • Line & Wrinkle Fillers
  • Minor Operation & Surgical Procedures
  • Treatment of Pigmented Lesions / Pigmentation
  • Advice & Treatment on Moles, Warts & Verrucae
  • Confidential Consultations
  • Prompt Treatment
  • Caring and Sympathetic Staff
  • Advice about safe Fat Reducing Treatments for Exess Fat and Cellulite

If you do not see a treatment listed above but would like to receive an impartial skin assessment to establish which procedure would suit you best, then please contact us.

We provide medical consultancy as part of our remit to provide a safer and more informed choice to patients. Please call, email or use our contact form.

Services
  • Botulinum "Botox"
  • Dermal Fillers including:
    • Restylane
    • Perlane
    • New Fill
    • Sculptura
    • Collagen
  • Non Surgical Treatments
  • Skin Age Assessment Advice on Photo Damage
  • Lip Enhancements
  • Nose & Mouth Fine Line Reduction
  • Line & Wrinkle Fillers
  • Minor Operation & Surgical Procedures
  • Treatment of Pigmented Lesions / Pigmentation
  • Advice & Treatment on Moles, Warts & Verrucae
  • Confidential Consultations
  • Prompt Treatment
  • Caring and Sympathetic Staff
  • Advice about safe Fat Reducing Treatments for Exess Fat and Cellulite
Skin Assessment Print E-mail

We are now offering SKIN AGE ASSESSMENT consultations. These are innovative assessments that are unique to COSMEDERM , and cannot be arranged elsewhere. The Cosmederm assessment of skin age risk is in three parts.

Skin Photo Damage Risk

During this part of the assessment you will be asked a number of questions, which help us in determining your skin type, past sun exposure and current lifestyle, all of which may affect your skin ageing.

This information is fed into a specially developed computer programme which will provide us with a total skin ageing skin score. This is important as it helps design a skin care programme for you to follow in the future. In fact this score is actually made up of two skin scores.

The first, called the INTRINSIC SKIN AGE SCORE relates to your own genetic make up and resistance to skin photo-damage, and helps predict how your skin might age if it not cared for correctly. The second measure of skin age risk is known as the EXTRINSIC SKIN AGE SCORE a measure of how your lifestyle, and in particular your exposure to UVA and UVB may influence your skin ageing risk

Ultra-Violet Reflectance Photography

The use of the latest ultra-violet reflectance photography techniques demonstrates areas of sun damage undetected by the naked eye. This gives us information that identifies existing sun damage, and helps provide you with a skin care program customised to your own skin.

Skin Age AssessmentYou will have your photograph taken with a special camera that provides an instant picture of the hidden photo-damage, which can be compared with a normal light photograph which is taken simultaneously. The photographs yield information about your current skin age, and identifies problem areas of your skin before they can be seen normally. This diagram shows how using a camera in room lighting can detect ultra violet images; when this technique is used on the skin it shows up melanin clusters undetected by the human eye in normal photographs.

Examples showing the Ultraviolet photographic technique.

22 Year old assessmentIt is helpful to see what undamaged skin looks like under normal lighting conditions and uv will look like; Normal skin shown in normal light on the left, and with ultraviolet photography on the right, in a 22 year old woman, reveals clear skin with little or no photodamage.

The technique described here is helpful in cases where photodamage is suspected;

60 Year old assessmentHere we see a marked contrast to the previous photograph; the normal light photograph shows only average changes in this 60 year old woman, but the uv photo on the right reveals massive phot damage which was not predictable in normal light. The doctors here at Cosmederm are experienced in interpreting these images in people of all ages, and so can help in detecting and treating sun damage problems.

Skin Photo Damage Risk

During this part of the assessment you will be asked a number of questions, which help us in determining your skin type, past sun exposure and current lifestyle, all of which may affect your skin ageing.

This information is fed into a specially developed computer programme which will provide us with a total skin ageing skin score. This is important as it helps design a skin care programme for you to follow in the future. In fact this score is actually made up of two skin scores.

The first, called the INTRINSIC SKIN AGE SCORE relates to your own genetic make up and resistance to skin photo-damage, and helps predict how your skin might age if it not cared for correctly. The second measure of skin age risk is known as the EXTRINSIC SKIN AGE SCORE a measure of how your lifestyle, and in particular your exposure to UVA and UVB may influence your skin ageing risk

The Dermatological Consultation

After completing the questionnaire and having the ultra-violet photograph taken, you will then be examined by a doctor who is an expert in facial ageing who will bring together the information from the skin ageing risk scores and the UV photographs to give an overall COMPOSITE SKIN AGEING SCORE. Doctors such as Cosmederm’s medical director Dr. Thomas Nel use these various measurements to look at the current health of the skin, and also describe how your skin may age in the future. Of equal importance you will also be advised about measures to minimise the risk of sun related photo-ageing.

You will be provided with a skin care report that is customised specifically to you; no two people will have identical skin risk scores, and therefore everyone’s skin care reports will be different, customised to you alone.

Skin Ageing Assessment Skin ageing can be reduced by careful attention to your lifestyle, and the advice you will be given will cover a range of areas including skin care , minimising skin risk by the use of appropriate sun screens and general lifestyle advice. Sometimes specific procedures such as chemical skin peels, micro-dermabrasion, anti-aging cosmetic treatments such as the use of dermal fillers or other anti wrinkle treatments may be recommended…it all depends on the results of the skin assessment.

Clients who have had the unique skin assessment described here have the opportunity to follow the advice given and monitor progress over a defined period. By reviewing the initial skin age assessment after six months for example, the skin ageing can be reassessed and improvements recorded. It is frequently found that definite improvements can be seen in the u/v photographs, following appropriate anti-aging treatments of sun damaged skin.

No other treatment centres in the UK are currently offering this unique service.