It
might help you look a little younger, but if you were hoping to come
out of cosmetic surgery looking more beautiful, the joke's on you, a
recent study suggests.
Researchers wanting to find a way to objectively quantify what surgical corrections do for a person's attractiveness found that patients who had surgery to lift sagging skin or correct wrinkles on their face were voted as looking an average of three years younger.
The study, which was conducted by researchers from Lenox Hill Hospital and Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Institute of North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, gave volunteers photographs of patients between the ages of 42 to 73 after they had undergone plastic surgery to have a look at.
They were then asked to approximate the age of each patient, as well as give an indication of how attractive they thought the patient was on a scale of one to 10. The volunteers never viewed before and after photos of the same patient.
Most patients' attractiveness was rated between four to six but the results showed no difference between ratings before and after surgery. However, volunteers did guess the patients' ages as being on average 5.2 years younger when viewing post-surgery photos.
"Patients come to us because they want to look younger. They want to look refreshed," added study researcher Dr A Joshua Zimm in an article by LiveScience. He also pointed out that further study on whether or not plastic surgery improves attractiveness were required.
Researchers wanting to find a way to objectively quantify what surgical corrections do for a person's attractiveness found that patients who had surgery to lift sagging skin or correct wrinkles on their face were voted as looking an average of three years younger.
The study, which was conducted by researchers from Lenox Hill Hospital and Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Institute of North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, gave volunteers photographs of patients between the ages of 42 to 73 after they had undergone plastic surgery to have a look at.
They were then asked to approximate the age of each patient, as well as give an indication of how attractive they thought the patient was on a scale of one to 10. The volunteers never viewed before and after photos of the same patient.
Most patients' attractiveness was rated between four to six but the results showed no difference between ratings before and after surgery. However, volunteers did guess the patients' ages as being on average 5.2 years younger when viewing post-surgery photos.
"Patients come to us because they want to look younger. They want to look refreshed," added study researcher Dr A Joshua Zimm in an article by LiveScience. He also pointed out that further study on whether or not plastic surgery improves attractiveness were required.
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