Re: Why does your face get wrinkles when you get old?

David,

Your face can wrinkle for a variety of reasons.

• Your muscles degrade over time and weaken, the ones that are weak result in the wrinkles in your face.
• You can over use certain facial muscles, sometimes due to the way you sleep, and they can weaken ooner than other muslces leading to wrinkles.
• Time, using gravity as its tool, can continually pull your muscles downward leading to stress and over use resulting in wrinkles.
• One of the worst causes is smoking. http://kidshealth.org/kid/games/SmokingWrinkles.html
• Exposure to the sun can be another culprit.

A simple search on face wrinkles yielded many hits which should lead to you a lot of valuable information.

-Jeff