Treatment for Aging Hands

The hands (along with the chest décolleté area) are one of the biggest age revealers on the body. The hands are the most frequently exposed to the sun and harsh weather…..usually with the least protection. The hands also spend a lot of time in wet environments, from washing dishes to washing the car. Because the hands have some of the thinnest skin on the body (the eyelids are the thinnest) with very little fat. As a result of this anatomy, veins on the hand become very prominent as we age. These thinning veiny hands, combined with liver spots, age them considerably in appearance.

To rejuvenate the back of the hands and lessen the bony, veiny appearance, fat injections offer a good solution. Fat is removed from somewhere on your body through liposuction, concentrated, and then injected and smoothed under the skin on the back of the hands. There is very little swelling and bruising and no pain after, with the exception of the harvest site. The result is instantaneous. Overfilling is usually necessary as there is some resorption of some portion of the injected fat. What you see at 3 months after surgery is usually fairly permanent. While results are ‘permanent’, you will continue to lose fat as you age, so additional sessions may eventually be necessary.

Because the fat needs to be sterile when transferred to the hands, the procedure usually performed in the operating room under sedation. It is often part of many different plastic surgery procedures performed at once, you may be asleep for it as well.

Dr Barry Eppley
www.eppleyplasticsurgery.com
www.ologyspa.com
Clarian North Medical Center, Carmel, Indiana
Clarian West Medical Center, Avon, Indiana
Indianapolis