Early detection can help improve melasma treatment, and researchers believe they now have the key: black light. Some had already suggested black light could help dermatologists diagnose melasma depth, but researchers at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have discovered the technology can help diagnose melasma that would otherwise be invisible to the naked eye. For their study, the researchers quantitatively measured amounts of melasma detected using natural light and using black light, then compared the two. They discovered that the black light did, in fact, detect melasma that was invisible in natural light. It seems …Read more »