Summary: Melasma is a common form of hyperpigmentation associated with hormones. Learn how to treat different forms of hyperpigmentation in this free skin care video from a licensed medical aesthetician.
Mary Elizabeth Thinnes has been a licensed medical aesthetician for the past six years. She is medical board certified with the federal academy of medical aesthetics. Thinnes...read more
"Hi my name is Mary Thinnes and I am a skin care expert. I am going to discuss with you some common forms of hyper pigmentation. Hyper pigmentation is the brown spots that can be sun induced or caused by hormones for instance melasma is a common form of hyper pigmentation. As you can see by this chart it is still the brown spots as I mentioned before but sometimes it is seen in young men who use a lot of after shave lotions and especially it is common in women 20 to 40 because it is associated with hormones so you will also see melasma in pregnant women. It looks like the pregnancy mask and unfortunately it can't generally be fixed until after they have had the baby because it is due to their hormones and being pregnant. It is fixable after the baby is born. Melasma is fixable even if it is someone who just has a hormone imbalance and is not pregnant, it is still fixable with those women as well because like I said it is a form of hyper pigmentation and it can be fixed. Anything from the lightening gels that I mentioned before to professional treatments which I will discuss later on. Another form of hyper pigmentation that is common is post inflammatory hyper pigmentation and this generally can be caused from a skin infection as I mentioned before with acne, it can be a mark that is left after acne is extracted and the pustule is not present but the lesion is still present afterwards with that red. It can also be due to trauma maybe someone was burned or someone had surgery and as I mentioned before it is a form of hyper pigmentation and it is fixable. I just wanted to mention those different types of hyper pigmentation that were maybe not sun induced but they are still classified as hyper pigmentation and can be fixed."
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researcher1 said
on 12/11/2008 I am confused. Can you tell me what state and regulatory agency licenses as a "medical esthetician"?
I have also tried to research this field but can not find any medical board which certifies a medical aesthetician nor even the "federal academy of medical aesthetics"