Dr. Mitchell Elliott Bender

And then the other thing is there were pigment cells in the top layer of the skin, the epidermis.

And so people who get a lot of ultraviolet light will get brown spots.

Women, if they are on the contraceptive or get pregnancy, will get a condition called melasma, called the mask of pregnancy, where they get brown kind of under the eyes and on the forehead.

And that will happen as a combination of the effects of estrogen hormone and ultraviolet light.

So it's not so much aging in that condition as it is exposure to ultraviolet light.

Another reason why women should be using sunscreen on their face to cut down on the risk of melasma.

It's a harmless condition, but women hate it.

It just takes their appearance and it's preventable.

Well, a certain amount of AIDS spots are going to happen to just about everybody, particularly after age 40.

They're unavoidable.

Some will get more than others.

No one knows exactly why.

I think they're more genetic because I see people coming in with dozens of

these benign growths on the skin called seborrhea keratosis, and I ask about family history, and many times they'll say, oh, my dad had them, or my ma had them, or my brother has them.

So those you cannot stop from coming, yet we have no way of doing that.

They're not harmful.

People don't like them, and they're easily removed

usually with spraying some cold liquid nitrogen on them, and you can get them to fall off.

There are other kinds of spots called lentigos.

Some people call them liver spots.