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Face-lift fact? Look seven years younger
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February 24, 2012, Friday
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WONDERING how young you'll look after that face-lift? Now there's a study to help you figure out.
Plastic surgery procedures took an average of seven years off patients' appearance, with more extensive facial surgeries turning the clock back even further, researchers writing in the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery said.
While the goal of surgery is to restore a more youthful and yet natural appearance, doctors haven't had the data before to provide a good estimate to their patients of just how much younger they'd look after face-lifts, forehead lifts and eyelid work, they added.
"It's not the numbers that are important so much as the trend," cautioned Nitin Chauhan, a doctor from the University of Toronto, who worked on the study. "Everybody has different objectives in mind (for surgery) and everybody has a different pre-operative state."
For the report, Chauhan and his colleagues recruited 40 medical students to evaluate the "before" and "after" photos of 60 people they'd operated on with face-lifts, neck lifts and additional procedures.
Those patients, mostly women, were between 45 and 72 years-old when they got cosmetic surgery.
Before their procedures, the raters estimated that patients were a year or two younger than their actual age. In the "after" shots, however, they pegged them at nine years younger than they really were.
The perceived age benefit was larger the more procedures patients had done, the team said.
Getting only a face and neck lift turned the clock back 5.7 years, on average, based on the photo assessments. That compared to 7.5 years for patients who had eyelid work in addition to neck and face lifts, and 8.4 years for those who got forehead lifts on top of the other procedures.
When all of these were put together, patients looked an average of 7.2 years younger post-surgery.
Plastic surgery procedures took an average of seven years off patients' appearance, with more extensive facial surgeries turning the clock back even further, researchers writing in the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery said.
While the goal of surgery is to restore a more youthful and yet natural appearance, doctors haven't had the data before to provide a good estimate to their patients of just how much younger they'd look after face-lifts, forehead lifts and eyelid work, they added.
"It's not the numbers that are important so much as the trend," cautioned Nitin Chauhan, a doctor from the University of Toronto, who worked on the study. "Everybody has different objectives in mind (for surgery) and everybody has a different pre-operative state."
For the report, Chauhan and his colleagues recruited 40 medical students to evaluate the "before" and "after" photos of 60 people they'd operated on with face-lifts, neck lifts and additional procedures.
Those patients, mostly women, were between 45 and 72 years-old when they got cosmetic surgery.
Before their procedures, the raters estimated that patients were a year or two younger than their actual age. In the "after" shots, however, they pegged them at nine years younger than they really were.
The perceived age benefit was larger the more procedures patients had done, the team said.
Getting only a face and neck lift turned the clock back 5.7 years, on average, based on the photo assessments. That compared to 7.5 years for patients who had eyelid work in addition to neck and face lifts, and 8.4 years for those who got forehead lifts on top of the other procedures.
When all of these were put together, patients looked an average of 7.2 years younger post-surgery.
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