Facts About Skin

• Your skin is your body's largest organ.
• If your skin was removed, it would weigh between 7 and 9 pounds and stretch out to about 20 square feet.
• One square inch of skin is packed with 100 oil glands, 15 feet of blood vessels and two kinds of sweat glands.
• It takes about an ounce of sunscreen to protect exposed skin from the sun. An ounce of sunscreen is enough to fill up a shot glass.
• Smoking robs your skin of life-giving oxygen! Nicotine narrows blood vessels and prevents oxygen-carrying blood from circulating though the tiny capillaries in the top layers of the skin.
• After liposuction, the fat will not return if you maintain your weight.
• The results of laser resurfacing, dermabrasion, and chemical peels may last for many years.

Facts About Dermatologists

• Dermatologists perform surgery. Dermatologists often perform skin surgery to help prevent and control diseases such as skin cancer, and to address a patient's cosmetic concerns, including wrinkles or sagging skin and acne scarring. Dermatologists invented lasers to use on the skin, and procedures such as hair transplantation, chemical peels, dermabrasion, and tumescent liposuction.
• Dermatologists treat hair loss. Dermatologists are trained to treat all skin, hair and nail conditions, including hair loss. They also treat athlete's foot, wrinkles, age spots, genital herpes, unwanted fatty deposits, psoriasis, genital warts, cold sores (herpes simplex Type 1), mouth sores and other skin ailments.
• Dermatologists get more medical training than a general practitioner. In addition to four years of medical school and one year of residency in general medicine and surgery, dermatologists have at least three more years of intensive medical and surgical training in the specialty area of skin, hair and nails.

Skin Statistics

• Nearly 64% of people know what the Ultraviolet(UV) Index is, and one-third of them change their sun habits as a result.
• Girls with acne seem to suffer more than boys. They feel more self-conscious and tend to like themselves less.
• Although 9 out of 12 parents were aware that sun exposure during childhood can increase their chances of getting skin cancer, only 68% regularly put sunscreen on their children.
• Smoking for 10 minutes will decrease your body's oxygen supplies for almost an hour. Smoking a pack a day significantly interferes with the body's oxygen supply for most of each day. It also adds years to your looks by wrinkling and aging your skin.