“We have set up the task force dedicated to ethnic dermatology. Already after the summer, and in any case by 2024, we will start with the training courses”. Thus Giuseppe Argenziano, president of Sidemast, the Italian Society of Medical Surgical Aesthetic Dermatology and Sexually Transmitted Diseases, explains to Adnkronos the initiative, among the first in Europe, which aims to train Italian dermatologists in the management of dermatological diseases of the dark skin and therefore raise awareness among doctors and healthcare workers about the specificity and management of the problems of these phototypes through education, continuous training, the dissemination of best practices, also developing research on specific issues and activating dedicated clinics.
The task force “was born from experience” and from the increase in demand in the clinics. “Dermatology on dark skin – explains Argenziano – is completely different” from that on light skin “because the phototype greatly influences the clinical aspect of dermatological diseases. Compared to, for example, Brazilians, where there is a tradition in treating these phototypes, Italian dermatologists are less prepared. In fact, in Europe phototypes 1 to 4 prevail, in Asia 5 and in Africa 6 – specifies President Sidemast – The specific problems of dark phototypes concern in particular acne which, for example, is much more important” and evident “in these people” who often suffer from “keloidal acne, that is, which has keloids, evident scars, which are aesthetically very annoying. Then there are other pathologies” in these phenotypes “that concern the hair, pathologies such as” lichen rash “or cicatricial alopecia, which are seen more often in black people”.
Promoted with the support of the Sidemast Board of Directors and coordinated by Enzo Errichetti, “a specialist from Udine who has always dealt with dermatology in people of color – underlines Argenziano – the task force is committed to organizing distance learning courses and in-person events ” for specialists throughout the national territory, hoping, “where there was a need – he concludes – to set up clinics to make expert dermatologists available for pathologies linked to the phenotype in each Region”.
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