George Orwell famously said: “At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.” Orwell, however, died in 1950 and it is safe to say that since then our knowledge of the causes of ageing, the solutions we can provide and the methods by which we assess these solutions have progressed leaps and bounds. On 3-4 June in London, leaders in the skin care field came together for the biennial Anti-ageing Skin Care Conference, which discussed the theme ‘The promise of advanced anti-ageing technologies’.
This review looks at the presentations by theme, rather than chronologically.
On photoageing
The keynote speech on day one was delivered by Professor Gary Fisher of the University of Michigan School and addressed ‘Mechanisms of photoageing and procedure-based therapies’. Fisher demonstrated that photodamaged human skin contains more collapsed fibroblasts and more fragmented collagen fibrils than healthy human skin, and zoned in specifically on the effect of UV radiation on the increased expression of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) which break down the dermal matrix.
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