Dermatology question: how do you make a light spot turn brown (african american) or stimulate melanocytes?

Here you go:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanocytes...

Basically, the sun does this...which accounts for a "tan".
But, for a lot of caucasians, it doesn't distribute very well...and the melanocytes are kind of "screwed up"...which leads to a lot of "pools" of tan spots - ie. freckles!!! :)

Of course, these changes are temporary...
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But otherwise, for a specific white spot on a darker skinned person - such as in vitiligo, it is a bit more difficult. There are some prescription creams and ointments that can help, though.

And here is some other information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitiligo#Tr...

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Hope this helped some.
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