that's why our guest today is dermatovi. neurologist, a specialist who every day makes patients’ facesnatalya, hello. good morning, ekaterina. natalya, let ’s start with the types of pigment spots, because, as it turned out, they are different and even have different names. of course, the variety of pigment spots is very large, and we must understand that we acquire some of them at birth, which is why they are called congenital, and some of them are our inheritance during life, pigment spots are a general concept, dyschromia, combine the concept of hypomelanosis, that is, complete or partial loss of pigment, and hypermelanosis - this is excessive accumulation of melanin in certain layers of the skin, pigment spots will vary in size, the smallest of them are ephelides or freckles, which are probably inherent in almost every one of us, and the lighter the skin, the more of them there will be, then solar linting is a production process ... in response to ultraviolet radiation, melasma, as a result of hormonal, stress or some other pathological changes, there may be toxic pigment spots, an