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Declan Whitcombe
Reports on the research and technology behind age spot removal, with a focus on what the evidence actually supports.
7 stories by Declan Whitcombe
Field NotesThe driver's side check: comparing your left and right for age spots
Nobody in a consultation room asks which side of the car you sit on, yet the answer often explains why the spots on one temple arrived a decade before the ones on the other. A five minute paired comparison at your own bathroom mirror tells you whether your pigment is coming from beach days or from the commute.
· Declan Whitcombe · 8 min
Field NotesThe Medicine Cabinet Audit: When Your New Dark Spots Are Coming From a Pill
Roughly one in five cases of acquired hyperpigmentation is drug-induced, and the drugs responsible are ordinary ones. Here is a bathroom-counter audit that sorts a sun spot from a medication stain before you spend money lasering the wrong thing.
· Declan Whitcombe · 7 min
Field NotesInside a pigment consultation: what a good dermatologist checks before touching a spot
The unglamorous twenty minutes before any laser fires is where age spot treatment succeeds or fails. A walk through the real appointment, from dermatoscope to test spot.
· Declan Whitcombe · 6 min
Field NotesMelasma vs. age spots: similar look, different fix
Two pigment problems that get confused, and why treating one like the other backfires.
· Declan Whitcombe · 6 min
Field NotesSunscreen: the only non-negotiable in pigment care
Mineral vs. chemical, SPF numbers, and the reapplication problem nobody solves.
· Declan Whitcombe · 5 min
Field NotesWhy your age spots keep coming back
Clearing a spot and keeping it gone are two different projects.
· Declan Whitcombe · 5 min
Field NotesAge spot or melanoma, how to tell the difference
The ABCDE rule, and the single most important habit for anyone with sun-aged skin.
· Declan Whitcombe · 6 min