Plastic surgery can shave nine years from your appearance

A new study has found that plastic surgery can shave up to an average of nine years from an person’s age appearance. Not only do the University of Toronto results quantify, for the first time, the youth-giving surgery’s effects, but researchers found that the findings held true even when patients were younger to begin with and despite other factors potentially influencing looks. And, the more plastic surgery procedures an individual had had, the greater the number of years between real and perceived age, according to the report published yesterday in the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery.

Those who had undergone one procedure looked an average of 5.7 years younger, while those who had had two operations, such as a neck lift and a facelift, appeared 7.5 years younger. The patients who had lumped for yet another lift, having a total of three plastic surgery procedures, looked 8.4 years younger, in the eyes of the medical students. The study has been seen by experts to cement anecdotal evidence in the industry – namely, that not only does ‘facial rejuvenation’ do actually what it says it will do, but that success is best measured by the perceptions of others.

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