Abstract
The factors that influence the onset and severity of facial skin wrinkling are many. They include innate factors such as constitutive skin pigmentation and ethnicity, gender, and age. Environmental factors such as acute and chronic sun exposure, diet, smoking history, and exercise are also considered important in facial wrinkling. In this chapter, I review the advances made in our understanding of the epidemiology and etiology of skin wrinkling based on selected publications from 2010 to 2015.
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Hillebrand, G. (2016). Facial Wrinkling: The Marquee Clinical Sign of Aging Skin. In: Farage, M., Miller, K., Maibach, H. (eds) Textbook of Aging Skin. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27814-3_86-2
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