Wrinkle Reduction and Prevention

Women and men, albeit in different ways, face the first appearance of wrinkles on their faces around the age of 25.

The initial signs are essentially superficial skin folds and expression lines. In most cases, they consist of **sagging of skin structures** due to a lack of collagen and elastin, which in turn is caused by repeated stretching and extension of certain portions of the skin.

The causes of wrinkles are **multiple and varied in nature**: first and foremost is age, but also genetic factors, environmental factors, constitutional factors, sun exposure, dietary habits, smoking, and the very personal mix of character – and consequent facial expressions – of each of us.

This translation maintains the emphasis on key phrases as they appear in the original text. It accurately conveys the information about the onset of wrinkles, their initial signs, and the various factors contributing to their formation.

Learning to distinguish between wrinkles is the first weapon to fight them and give your skin all the tools to counter them most effectively. Indeed, there are different types of wrinkles which, precisely because of their differences, should be treated in the most appropriate way.

• Expression wrinkles: These are wrinkles dictated by muscles, our daily expressions, and they develop especially in the upper third of the face (eyes and forehead). They are the memory of how many times we have made a certain movement. Forehead wrinkles and eye contour wrinkles in aesthetic medicine are usually treated with botulinum toxin, which relaxes the muscles responsible for that particular movement, but also with revitalizers and skinboosters based on vitamins and non-filling hyaluronic acid, lasers, and the Lipogems® method.
• Gravitational wrinkles: These are determined by the force of gravity because, over the years, we inevitably suffer its action, so that even our tissues – and not just the skin, but even muscles and internal organs – undergo changes. The most significant is indeed a downward sagging, slow but progressive, which creates a hollowing on one side and a laxity on the other. The classic example of this type of wrinkles are the nasolabial folds that run from the corners of the nose to the mouth. In aesthetic medicine, anti-wrinkle facial treatments for gravitational wrinkles involve the use of filling hyaluronic acid fillers and the Lipogems® method, while surgically they are successfully eliminated thanks to facelifts and blepharoplasty. For prevention, there are countless anti-wrinkle aesthetic medicine treatments.
• Actinic wrinkles: These are determined by repeated sun exposure over the years, but also by many other external factors that create oxidative stress, including pollution, medications, diet, smoking, and environmental factors (it is known, for example, that in dry and windy climates our skin has a greater predisposition to the appearance of wrinkles). They can be treated satisfactorily thanks to biorevitalizers, skinboosters, microbotox, and microinfusions. Excellent in this regard are also fractional CO2 lasers, Fraxel and Genesis, and various facial anti-wrinkle treatments listed at the bottom of the page.
• Sleep wrinkles or crinkle lines: In English, wrinkle is said "wrinkle". Crinkle lines are the memory of our body positions during sleep, of how we rest our face on the pillow night after night. If at a young age the marks left by the pillow (or even by dreams!) disappear after a few moments from waking up, with the passing of years they tend to stay longer and longer, sometimes becoming permanent "marks" on our skin. Crinkle lines are treated with lasers, biorevitalizers, skinboosters, microbotox, microinfusions, targeted anti-wrinkle facial treatments.

The first thing to do is to understand what type of skin we have: oily skin tends to show fewer marks than dry or dehydrated skin. In addition to normal daily skincare precautions, to preserve the youthfulness of the skin and constantly monitor the onset of wrinkles, prevention is necessary, with treatments to be planned even before the signs of aging, the wrinkles indeed, have left their mark. But once the lines to be eliminated are discovered on the face, not all is lost: the anti-wrinkle treatments of aesthetic medicine that Image Regenerative Clinic offers cover the widest range of needs. From the latest generation of Botox to biorevitalization, from expertly applied fillers to hyaluronic acid.

This translation maintains the emphasis on key phrases as they appear in the original text. It accurately conveys the information about understanding skin type, the importance of prevention and daily skincare, and the range of treatments offered by Image Regenerative Clinic to address wrinkles.