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Facial Wrinkling: The Marquee Clinical Sign of Aging Skin

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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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    Greg Hillebrand

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  1. Procter & Gamble Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

    Miranda A. Farage

  2. Procter & Gamble Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

    Kenneth W. Miller

  3. Department Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California, USA

    Howard I. Maibach

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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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