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Effects Of Aging Hands

"The revolution is fat. It is turned out to be a great reservoir of regenerative tissue," says Dr. Roger Khouri, Plastic Surgeon with Baptist Health South Florida, and explains fat is used to treat arthritis, contractures, age-related diseases, rejuvenating and also for treating wounds. Dr. Daniel Calva, Plastic Surgeon with Baptist Health South Florida, highlights in terms of hand rejuvenation there are things that are giving away your age: "With age the skin diminishes, atrophies, it becomes smaller. That allows you to see the tendons, valleys, peaks in your hands. Also, you get age spots, hyperpigmentation of the skin."

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