Hand Veins Macon Georgia

While cosmetic surgery may rejuvenate your facial features, the hands may give your age away.  Dilated hand veins, while unattractive, are usually healthy veins.  Treatments of hand veins is therefore cosmetic with a goal to help you look better and feel younger.

Causes

As you age, hand veins appear larger.  While these veins may be dilated superficial veins, they are most likely a result of thinning skin and the loss of subcutaneous fat with aging that makes the veins appear more visible.

Treatments

The treatment options for unsightly hand veins include ambulatory phlebectomy to remove these veins, filler injection to hide the veins and sclerotherapy, or a combination of these.  These are outpatient procedures with minimal post treatment discomfort, bruising and swelling for a several days.    

There is minimal risk that treating these veins will affect venous circulation.  The veins in the deeper layers of the hand provide adequate collateral flow allowing safe treatment of the superficial veins.   

In most cases, the treatment of hand veins is cosmetic in nature, and not covered by insurance.   

What's Next

If you are interested in finding out more about hand veins and the treatments available, please call 478 743 2472 to schedule your consultation.