title: Simplifying sun safety: a guide to the new FDA sunscreen monograph.
abstract: Dermatologists are instrumental in educating their patients about safe sun practices. As residents, we should begin to instill this teaching point into our daily patient encounters. The new US Food and Drug Administration sunscreen guidelines, instituted fully in December 2012, help consumers make more educated decisions about sunscreens they purchase but also introduce new classifications and claims with which dermatologists should be intimately familiar. This article aims to concisely summarize the revisions as well as any continued controversies with the guidelines.
authors.affiliation: 181 N Belle Mead Rd, Suite 5, East Setauket, NY 11733, USA. roman.bronfenbrener@stonybrookmedicine.edu.
authors.forename: Roman
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bronfenbrener
mesh_terms: D003880:Dermatology / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D013471:Sunburn / Q000517:prevention & control; D013472:Sunlight / Q000009:adverse effects; D013473:Sunscreening Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000145:classification; D014466:Ultraviolet Rays / Q000009:adverse effects*; D014481:United States; D014486:United States Food and Drug Administration
chemical_list: D013473:Sunscreening Agents