Measurement of facial skin thickness by ultrasound method.

Abstract

We studied the change in skin thickness of forehead and cheek with age for healthy male and female subjects using ultrasound method. Skin thickness decreased with ageing in forehead and cheek in both sex groups, and it was thicker at every age group in males than in females.We also measured the skin thickness from twelve different sites at face in six healthy subjects. It was shown that skin thickness of eyelid was thinner than that of jaw or cheek.