Melasma : A Deep Dive into the Cause & Treatment

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http://AMAskincare.com Hello, I’m Dr. Milgrom for AMA Regenerative Medicine & Skincare. Today we are going to be discussing melasma. Before we get into exactly how we treat melasma it is very important to discuss first what creates melasma and to do that we have to take a deep dive into the physiology of the skin precisely of the skin of the face.

Melanocyte cells make melanin which is the natural pigment in our skin. As you can imagine, the melanocyte is the protagonist in our story of dispigmentation or the discoloration which is a melasma. The melanocytes are making little packets of melanin which are being absorbed into the epithelial cells as they march towards the surface. By the time they get to the surface they will have within them the proper compliment of melanin as determined by your genetic programming.

When melasma patients come to us and they sit here at this consultation table and I’m asking them all sorts of questions about when was the onset of the melasma. What were the conditions surrounding when the melasma showed up. What was going on in your life, was there a pregnancy, were there hormones, was there some kid of major inflammation to the skin? The reason I’m asking all those questions is because we need to distinguish whether or not the patient’s melasma is a stable melasma or an unstable melasma. This is critically important especially for the prognosis of how we need to treat that particular melasma.

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AMA Regenerative Medicine & Skincare
Alice Pien, MD
Asher Milgrom, PhD

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