This year, Myra Borkan, a diligent twice-a-day moisturizer, had her skin analyzed in Dr. Taub's office.
You can get a hair treatment ($45-$45-$60 a blow-out ($35-$35-$45 perhaps you'd like your skin analyzed by a beauty adviser operating the "Crystalize skin imaging" camera, a machine that looks like a DustBuster and is purportedly able to assess the pigmentation, dryness, redness, and texture of your epidermis.
"I don't believe in comparing your face to someone else," said Dr. David Colbert, a cosmetic dermatologist in New York, who said he had treated at least 10 patients in the last three months who were upset after having their skin analyzed by an imaging machine.
As an aesthetician, I've analyzed my own skin, analyzed other people's skin and had my skin analyzed by other people.
End points were visual impression of the skin (analyzed on photographs), patient satisfaction, and skin elasticity (measured with the DermaLab device) 3 months after the last treatment session compared with baseline.
To evaluate the CD133 expression in normal skin, we analyzed skin from different areas obtained from the margins of six surgically resected tumors of the skin and from three autopsies.
For a comprehensive analysis of the SSTR system in human skin, we analyzed samples from human skin by RT-PCR using primers specific for the various SSTR subtypes.
An optical recording device is attached to the skin surface (e.g., the forearm), and the recordings from the skin are analyzed by means of spectral analysis.
At several time points, samples are taken out of the continuously stirred receptor medium beneath the skin and analyzed for the amount of test substance providing information on toxicokinetics.
However, they were stable in the T lymphocytes, immortalized B lymphoblastoid cells, and skin fibroblasts analyzed in each individual.
