Discover the Future of Skincare with Our Advanced Skin Scanning Assessment
What is a Skin Scanning Assessment?
Our Skin Scanning Assessment uses OBSERVE 520x to analyse your skin in detail. This comprehensive evaluation provides insights into your skin type, texture, hydration levels, pigmentation, and the presence of any underlying conditions that are not visible to the naked eye.
Why should I have my skin scanned?
Skin scanning provides valuable insights, personalised care, and improved results, making it a valuable service for those seeking to improve and maintain their skin health and appearance.
Comprehensive skin assessment at Oasis Wellbeing Clinic uses the Observ 520 Skin Scanner, providing a thorough evaluation of various skin parameters, including texture, tone, pigmentation, hydration levels, and the presence of excess oil, imperfections or irregularities.
We can detect skin conditions and underlying issues that may not be visible to the naked eye, such as acne, rosacea, melasma, and sun damage. Allowing for timely intervention and treatment, potentially preventing the progression of these conditions and minimising their impact on skin health and appearance.
By understanding your skin’s unique characteristics and concerns through scanning, we can tailor personalised treatment plans. These plans may include skincare recommendations, aesthetic procedures, or laser treatments, targeted at addressing specific skin issues and achieving desired results.
Skin scanning provides objective data that can be used to monitor changes in the skin over time.
The photographs obtained throughout skin scanning provide a consistent and clinically reproducible image of the skin’s overall appearance. By capturing these images, our aesthetic professionals can effectively evaluate various aspects of skin health, including texture, tone, pigmentation, and the presence of any lesions or abnormalities. The consistency provided by our skin scanner facilitates accurate comparison over time, which is essential for monitoring changes in skin condition and assessing the effectiveness of treatment interventions.
By comparing skin scanning images before and after treatment, we can evaluate changes in pigmentation, texture, and overall skin health. It provides a quantitative basis for precise tracking of changes in skin over time. This helps us evaluating the effectiveness of interventions aimed at enhancing skin health and appearance, and provides insight into adjustments of strategies as needed to optimise outcomes.
Scanning sessions can serve as an educational opportunity for you to learn more about your skin and how to properly care for it. Offering insights into skincare routines, lifestyle factors affecting skin health, and preventive measures to maintain optimal skin condition.
By offering advanced skin scanning technology and personalised care, we demonstrate a commitment to excellence in aesthetic services. Leading to improved treatment outcome and increased satisfaction when you see visible improvements in your skin and feel confident in the expertise of your skin care professional.
What does skin scanning show?
Our skin scanner has multiple exposures to show the different layers and common problems in the skin.
Daylight
Daylight mode takes an evenly illuminated picture of your skin with all features highlighted equally. This provides a clear and clinically reproduceable picture of the overall appearance of your skin for evaluation and comparison.
Cross Polarised
In a normal photograph, the skin reflects the light off its surface. With cross polarized light, a filter supresses the skins ‘glare’ and reveals microvascular structures and skin discolouration hiding beneath the shiny surface.
Cross polarised light can identify:
Thinning of the skin
Skin inflammation
Dark circles
Couperose
Telangectasia
Rosacea
Skin irritation
Sensitised skin
Parallel polarisation
Diagnostically, using parallel polarisation helps in seeing the surface of the skin more clearly because it enhances the surface reflection, revealing the fine surface texture, pore structures, and wrinkles that are only just beginning. This highlights the areas in need of support or improvement.
Reveals:
Rough and bumpy texture
Early aging skins/beginning wrinkles
Dry lines
Frown lines
Fine wrinkles
Clogged pores
Open pores
Very dry skin.
Woods lamp:
Shows the active sebaceous glands and the distribution of the oil film on the surface of the skin. Understanding the activity of sebaceous glands and the distribution of oil can provide valuable insights into skin physiology and help tailor skincare regimens or treatment plans accordingly.
It also highlights the intensity and depth of inflammatory activity surrounding the sebaceous glands. This inflammation can be indicative of various skin conditions, such as acne or seborrheic dermatitis. Understanding the intensity and depth of this inflammatory activity can help determine the severity of the condition and plan appropriate treatment strategies.
Woods lamp indicates:
Lipid Dry Skin
Combined skin
Oily skin
True UV:
True UV is a harmless dose of UV light, projected onto the skin. UV light has shorter wavelengths than visible light, allowing it to penetrate deeper into the skin and highlight specific features or substances, turning the skin into a human lamp! This can help diagnose of the type of pigmentation on the skin, assess the extent of sun damage/hormonal pigmentation and develop appropriate sun protection and treatment plans.
True UV reveals pigmentation irregularities that may not be visible to the naked eye. Epidermal pigmentation, such as sun damage (age spots) and freckles, sit close to the surface of the skin and can usually be seen without a skin scanner. However, the benefit of True UV is that it shows pigmented lesions that have not yet reached the surface of the skin. With this forewarning, we are able to stop this pigmentation from becoming worse and reducing it before it comes out.
Dermal hyperpigmentation appears more orange in colour under True UV, making these distinguishable from epidermal pigmentation. Conditions like melasma and chloasma create dermal pigmentation deposits that can be very stubborn and resistant to laser treatment. If your pigmentation looks orange under the True UV, we are able to choose a more appropriate treatment, such as skin care, chemical peels and Cosmelan.
Hypopigmentation (areas lacking pigment) caused by conditions like vitiligo or trauma can be identified.
Dryness and dehydrated can be identified on the skin scanner with True UV, as these areas may reflect or absorb the UV light differently than well-hydrated skin. This information can be useful for determining skincare routines and identifying potential underlying skin conditions.
Oily and Acne prone skin can benefit from True UV skin assessment, as areas of increased oiliness, clogged pores, pustules, active acne, inflammation associated with acne, porphyrin density and other comedogenic activity can be identified, and appropriate treatment selected.
Identifies:
Melasma
Sun damage
Thinning skin
Freckles
Porphyrin
Clogged pores
Oily pores
Comedogenic activities
Dry skin
Active acne
Complexion Analysis
Accumulates all the issues identified by all modes and stacks the images on top of each other. This gives us an overview of all the issues being experienced.
It also evaluates the uniformity and consistency of the skin tone across different areas of the face. It highlights the minute variations in skin tone and pigmentations, assessing the overall skin tone homogeneity.
What is Homogeneity?!
In complexion analysis, if the skin tone appears consistent across the face (without patches of discoloration, redness, or uneven pigmentation), it would have homogeneity, or be considered homogeneous. On the other hand, if there are areas of hyperpigmentation, hypopigmentation, redness, or other colour irregularities, the skin tone would be considered to be lacking homogeneity.
Those seeking to understand their skin’s condition and address concerns related to pigmentation irregularities or redness, this mode helps to guide personalised skincare routines, treatment plans and procedures aimed at improving the texture, brightness and uniformity (homogeneity) of the skin.
Call Oasis Wellbeing Clinic on 01253 283983 to learn more and make an appointment at our state-of-the-art clinic.
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