Thursday, May 29, 2008

It’s All In The Eyes…

To their credit plastic surgeons keep droning on about this fundamental fact.

The latest edition of the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery journal of the ASPS though, just bought the message home for us.

Strangely enough, the study found that certain simulated eyelid surgery effects which are supposed to give the impression of alertness and youth held the same impact as a tired, sad or a happy face.

But what the study also points out is that the degree of plastic surgery work performed on the eyelid surgery candidate needs to be very controlled especially when modification of the eyebrows is also involved.

The positioning of the eyebrows is a tremendous influence on how the opposite person perceives the mood of the eyelid surgery patient. Viewers were presented with simulated eyebrow lift effects and were found to have increased their ratings when the brows were lowered or pulled towards the nose. Anger and disgust were the main perceptions derived by the onlookers.

One of the good things about this study is the amount of control it exhorts the plastic surgeon to take when performing a blepharoplasty. There really is no need of going for a dynamic modification of any of your eyelids as a more natural result will be possible now with careful trimming.

Understand more at the Plastic Surgery Institute of California.

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