European Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine

Introduction: Facial skin disorders are a major health problem affecting a high proportion of the population in India. Facial skin disorders can place a heavy emotional and psychological burden on patients that may be far worse than the physical impact. Increased consciousness especially among the youth of their body and beauty further aggravates their anxiety. Many factors determine the pattern and prevalence of Facial skin disorders among the youth such as gender, race, personal hygiene, quality of skin care, environmental milieu and diet.  Materials an methods: This is an observational study was conducted in all age group patients attending at Department of DVL, Government General Hospital, Guntur for a Period of one year from Dec. 2021 to Dec. 2022. Total 424 patients with facial dermatoses belonging to age group birth to old age above and both sexes were randomly selected and included in the study after taking their consent.   Result: Total 424 consecutive patients with newly diagnosed Facial skin disorders attending outpatient department, Government General Hospital, Guntur are examined and data were recorded. In this study, most common facial dermatoses are pigmentary disorders (29.9%), of which melasma constituted the most common, followed by acne, rosacea, and perioral dermatitis (20.3%). 14.6% are infections and 12.7% are eczemas. There is a wide variation in the age group of the cases. In this study, we observed that maximum number of cases are students connective tissue disorders involve Facial skin disorders Conclusion: This study was undertaken to assess the nature and extent of the involvement of the face in various dermatoses at different age and sex. Though the prevalence of various diseases is well known, very few studies exist which have studied face involvement in these. The patients seen in our study were cross sectioned from all age group, both sexes, different socioeconomic status, as well as various geographical areas. It is thus felt that this study provides an insight into various aspects of facial dermatoses encountered in day to day practice.