Why not lift rejuvenates?

Why even a full face lift often does not have the desired rejuvenating effect? The researchers found that with age, a person is changing not only the skin but also the facial bones. That's something they need to correct and surgeons to patients again began to look, they say, "as a cucumber."

Facelift   Other techniques anti-aging treatment   for many years considered as the most effective methods to combat age-related changes of the face. But a new study conducted by doctors of the Center for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Rochester Medical Center shows that this practice needs to be reformed. Soon procedure facial rejuvenation   would consist of two stages: the first - the restoration of the old bone structure of the face, the second - in fact, lifting .

The researchers studied 120 images facial bone structure of different patients to measure, with time, this structure is changing. Pictures divided by sex and age of patients. In each of the three age groups turned to 20 men and 20 women. With the help of computer scientists measured the length, width and angle of the mandible (lower jaw), and then compared the results.

It was found that the angle of the jaw increases with age, causing a change in the lower boundary line of the face. The length of the jaw, in contrast, is reduced, but the height of the mandible with age does not change.

"The jaw is the foundation of the lower face, and changes disrupt the entire front figure - says MD Howard Lahnstein, leader of the study. - The volume of the jaw with age is significantly reduced, and thus lost the support and the tension of the soft tissue of the lower face and neck. That's why we have a loose skin. Perhaps in the future, plastic surgeons need to use implants for additional support to these tissues. This operation will be preceded by the now applicable lifting ".

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