| White Spots on my Skin Appearance of white spots on skin have become a serious skin problem. In most of the cases these occurs due to the loss of pigmentation in skin. There are many skin conditions or pigmentation disorders which causes skin spots. Normally majority of the people get these white skin spots on any on one or more parts of the their body but they do not know what are the real things about these skin spots. These white spots affecting millions of population from any races and both sexes. White Scars and Hypopigmentation Some time scars from any injury may leave a white spot on skin after healing, and look as it is vitiligo. Whether an injury will leave a white or a colored scar depends on the type of injury and the extent of damage to the pigment producing cells of the skin, the melanocytes. If the melanocytes are lost, or functionally impaired, a scar is likely to have a faulty pigmentation on healing. Pigmentation Pigmentation is process of skin coloration. Melanocytes are the special skin cells which produced pigmenting substance called Melanin. It is dark brown substance responsible for the skin for specific coloration of a person. Normally most of the spots or blotches either white or dark occurs due to the pigmentation problems of skin. |
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