Forget the Botox and lasers, if you’re the type to fight wrinkles and sags by getting “a little work done,” well, you might consider going ahead and getting a lot. According to the study just published by the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery, the more surgery patients had done, the younger they were perceived to be.
The study participants included 60 patients (all but six of whom were female), between the ages of 45 to 72, divided by three distinct levels of nips and tucks. Group one had undergone face and neck lifts; the second also had face and neck lifts but added upper and lower eyelid work to the menu; and the third were no strangers to the surgical knife, having had all of the above performed plus forehead lifts as well. Medical students were then asked to estimate the patients’ ages by studying photographs of them.
Surprisingly, depending on your perspective, the students perceived those in the first category as appearing 5.7 years younger, but for the second and third groups, surmised the patients were a whopping 7.5 and 8.4 years younger, respectively.
While it might make sense that the more plastic surgery one gets the younger they look—that is the point, after all, isn’t it?—there may be another key reason why the latter two groups seemed to have shaved off so many years: They both had eye procedures done. Continue reading
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