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'Plastic Surgery Really Does Make People Look Younger'
Plastic surgery seems to make people look about 8.9 years younger than their actual age, researchers from the University of Toronto and NorthShore University Health System reported in Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery.
Jeremy P. Warner, M.D., and team set out to determine how much younger esthetic facial surgical procedures made people look, in order to measure surgical success.
They gathered data on 60 patients who had all undergone facial plastic surgeries. They were aged between 45 and 72 years. The patients were divided into three groups: Face and neck lift groupFace and neck lift and eyelid work (blepharoplasty) groupEyelid work, and face, neck and forehead liftsForty medical students were asked to guess the age of people shown to them in photographs. They looked at pictures of patients before and after surgery.
The researchers found that: Photographs taken before surgery - students guessed they were 1.7 years younger than they actually were (average)Photographs taken after surgery - overall (all three groups), students guessed they were 8.9 years younger than they actually wereFace and neck lift group - 5.7 year change in perceived ageFace and neck lift and eyelid work - 7.5 years change in perceived ageEyelid work, and face, neck and forehead lifts - 8.5 year change in perceived ageThe medical students were fairly similar in how they perceived people's ages.
The authors explained that their study differs from previous ones in that it quantified how much younger the medical students thought the people in the photographs were after undergoing surgery. They added that the more facial surgeries people do, the younger their perceived age becomes.
The authors wrote:
"This effect is more substantial when the number of surgical procedures is increased, an effect unrelated to the preoperative age of a patient and unaffected by other variables that we investigated. The ability to perceive age correctly is accurate and consistent."
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Nitin Chauhan, MD, FRCSC; Jeremy P. Warner, MD; Peter A. Adamson, MD, FRCSC
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posted by Diana on 30 Apr 2012 at 12:32 pm
In fact, unfortunately, in some cases, from certain age, the diet or yoga do not help to eliminate weight or some other kind of problem! That's why I used plastic surgery to get rid of my belly! The result is great. The importaint thing is to do it in a serious clinic. For example me, I asked my friends, and one of them recommended a clinic in Paris. I was pleasantly surprised by the prices, and had a feeling to come on vacation but not to be operated.
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posted by carolina on 22 Feb 2012 at 8:57 am
i think that the age of people is more exactly seen not in a picture but in real presence, when people talk an make gestures like smiling. i think people with plastic surgery look younger when they are still, like in a picture, but not when they make all the natural gestures people make when talking, getting angry, smiling, etc.
(sorry for my english, i?m from Per?)
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