Vitiligo is a reoccurring skin condition in which the melanocytes (i.e. the pigment cells alive in skin epidermis) are damaged or are expired thereby white patches originates on the skin. However it is real that happening of white patches are the merely thing that happens to the affected people and the skin quality remains the unchanged as earlier the disease. This is also a fact that Vitiligo is not at all a life threatening skin problem but than besides it has a great impact on ones existence and visual aspects, peace of mind and attribute.
Appearance is numbered as very world-shattering not in just fashionable international but also in early ages and there are many proverbs said previously, which indicates towards the fact that appearance is the foremost thing that a person can be judged by. Also looking pretty is most wanted and desired thing not only by women but also by men all over the universe and thus there are a lot of skin care creams and cosmetics that are being produced and used world widely at a very large-scale.
Vitiligo is the disease that just attacks the appearance of person and thus it has transform into a social stigma. A number of people suffers from depression because of this disease and that is the only reason various researches are being conducted in order to obtain Vitiligo cure so that people can out run this depression and get their self confidence back.
Unfortunately, even after conducting various tests researchers are unable to get the real causes of Vitiligo and therefore no cure that can ensure irreversible re-pigmentation has been revealed yet and if any one is promising you such re-pigmentation, than it is surely just for marketing.
The researchers have withal managed to obtain some treatment for Vitiligo through which the re-pigmentation of white patches can be obtained, these treatments includes surgeries, steroids therapy and herbal re-pigmentation therapy. Seldom times, people also undergo de-pigmentation therapy but that is only if the hypo-pigmentation is very severe and have occurred all over the body like in the case of Michael Jackson's Vitiligo.