1. What are the high risk population of Hori's nevus?
it commonly appears on female aged between 16 and 40 years old, some of which is inherited as some people have family history on it.
2. What are the common locations of Hori's nevus?
It's commonly on the face, mostly at the zygomatic region with a few at the eyelids and the wings of nose.
3. Are there any features of Hori's nevus?
It's dark brown, dark gray or black brown pigmented spot of round, quasi-circular or irregular shapes, the size of which is 1 to 5mm. It has clear boundary and varied number ranging from several to dozens. Most of the nevi are in symmetric distributions.
4. How does Hori's nevus come into being?
Generally, people with Hori's nevus have some family history. Hori's nevus is a kind of congenital skin disease which occurs mainly on people's cheekbones, mainly on women, and it is usually free from any discomfort. Since it will gradually become severe as time goes on, people should receive timely treatment.
It is also related to people's endocrine factors. If sexual glands of their bodies secrete more hormone, then more Hori's nevi will come into being. Colors of skin pigments will deepen when it's severe, causing great harm.
5. Does the color of Hori's nevus vary with changes of seasons?
Compared with that of chloasma, the color of Hori's nevus changes less over time.
6. Will Hori's nevus disappear by itself?
No, it won’t vanish by itself but become deepened over time. So you'd better receive early treatment. The younger you are, the better absorption your body will have. And the less pigment granules you have, the more ideal treatment effect you'll get.
7. When is it better to treat Hori's nevus?
Well, the earlier, the better. That’s because the younger you are, the better absorption your body will have. And the less pigment granules you have, the more ideal treatment effect you'll get.
Besides, the treatment difficulty and the treatment cost will rise as the area of the nevus gets larger and the color deeper as you grow up.
8. How to remove Hori's nevus?
It can be treated by Q-Switch Laser whose principle of selective photo-thermal absorption can help effectively improve pigment particles inside the corium layer by smashing and expelling the particles outside the body through the lymphoid tissue. Not damaging the surrounding normal tissues, such selective laser can achieve the effect of definite and safe treatment with no damage or scar and little pain.
9. Can Hori's nevus be removed by one time？
As pigments are to be smashed in the corium layer, it's unlikely to smash them by one time or immediately eliminate them. Therefore, it takes about 3 times of Q-Switch Laser treatment with the interval of 3 months to get rid of the nevus, during which phagocytic cells in the body will completely metabolize, absorb and expel the pigment particles outside the body.
10. How is the treatment effect of removing Hori's nevus by laser?
The effect can be quite obvious. It's safe treatment with low pain, no scar and it can make your skin smooth and white.
11. Will the treatment effect of Hori's nevus rebound?
Hori's nevus removal by laser is a kind of spot removal treatment that can directly reach the nidus. An ideal effect can be achieved without rebounce as long as your take the treatment based on the course of treatment in coordination with the doctor and receive postoperative nursing.
12. What should I pay attention to after receiving the laser treatment?
After laser treatment, the treatment site will have different degrees of skin edema and skin errhysis (depending on individual differences) . Such edema and burning sensation can be alleviated by ice compress. The recovery period is marked by the disappearance of edema, incrustation by three days and decrustation by one week. During this period, apply the antibiotic ointment of one or two times a day to prevent local skin infections. Do not participate in strenuous exercise during the healing process as too much sweating will prolong the recovery period. As for decrustation, just let it fall off naturally. And in this period, keep the treatment sites away from water, makeup, touching, drinking, aspirin taking, facial mask and sun exposure otherwise it will cause a short period of pigmentation.
