Figure 1. Representative Confocal Microscopic Images of Sample Subjects’ Cutaneous innervation and Mast Cells.



A) Confocal microscopic image taken of facial skin from a 53-year-old female who underwent a primary facelift. (40.6 epidermal nerve fibers per millimeter).
Basement membrane (BM) - red, epidermal nerve fibers (ENFs) - green, capillaries (CAP) - pink.
B) Specimen from a 64-year-old female who underwent a revision facelift 11 years after her primary surgery. (13.8 epidermal nerve fibers per millimeter)
C) Specimen from a 47-year-old female with a 25 year history of smoking who underwent a primary facelift. (14.2 epidermal nerve fibers per mm2)