How Plastic Surgery Does Make People Look Younger Like Hollywood Actors(Too Costly)

Plastic surgery seems to make people look about 8.9 years younger than their actual age, researchers from the University of Toronto and North Shore University Health System reported in Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery.

Jeremy P. Warner, M.D., and team set out to determine how much younger esthetic facial surgical procedures made people look, in order to measure surgical success. They gathered data on 60 patients who had all undergone facial plastic surgeries. They were aged between 45 and 72 years. The patients were divided into three groups:

• Face and neck lift group

• Face and neck lift and eyelid work (blepharoplasty) group

• Eyelid work, and face, neck and forehead lifts

 

Forty medical students were asked to guess the age of people shown to them in photographs. They looked at pictures of patients before and after surgery.

The researchers found that:

Photographs taken before surgery - students guessed they were 1.7 years younger than they actually were (average)

Photographs taken after surgery - overall (all three groups), students guessed they were 8.9 years younger than they actually were

Face and neck lift group - 5.7 year change in perceived age

Face and neck lift and eyelid work - 7.5 years change in perceived age

Eyelid work, and face, neck and forehead lifts - 8.5 year change in perceived age

The medical students were fairly similar in how they perceived people's ages.

The authors explained that their study differs from previous ones in that it quantified how much younger the medical students thought the people in the photographs were after undergoing surgery. They added that the more facial surgeries people do, the younger their perceived age becomes.

The authors wrote:” This effect is more substantial when the number of surgical procedures is increased, an effect unrelated to the preoperative age of a patient and unaffected by other variables that we investigated. The ability to perceive age correctly is accurate and consistent."

(Source- Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery)

Here is the cost of Plastic Surgery in US

Actual Plastic & Cosmetic Surgery Prices

The following table gives an estimate of the total average cost including all the costs outlined earlier for some of the most popular cosmetic surgery procedures.  

The next table gives you the 2010 US national average cost for only the surgeon fees.

The last table below gives you the 2010 cost by region.

Procedures Average Total Cost

Breast Augmentation $6,000

Breast Lift $5,200

Breast Reduction $5,200

Eyelid Surgery $4,000

Facelift $8,500

Liposuction (one area) $4,000

Male Breast Reduction $5,200

Rhinoplasty $5,000

Tummy Tuck $6,400

National Average Plastic Surgery Cost per Procedure 2010

Surgeon/physician fees only. This does not include costs for surgical facility, anesthesia, medical tests, prescriptions, surgical garments or other miscellaneous fees related to surgery given earlier in this article. Data taken from ASAPS (American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery) and ASPS (American Society of Plastic Surgeons)

Procedures Surgeon Fee(ASAPS) Surgeon Fee(ASPS)

Autologous Fat (injectable) $1,763 $1,700

Botox $398 $375

Breast Implant Removal no data $2,288

Breast Augmentation (Implants) $3,600* $3,351

Breast Lift $4,401 $4,207

Breast Reduction in Men $3,377 $3,013

Buttock Augmentation (Implants) $4,459 $4,500

Buttock Lift $4,950 $4,379

Cheek Implants $2,732 $2,739

Chemical Peel $679 $706

Chin Augmentation $2,239 $2,000

Collagen, Bovine Injections $473 $475

Dermabrasion no data $1,200

Ear Surgery (Otoplasty) $3,048 $3,054

Eyelid surgery (blepharoplasty) $2,912 $2,828

Facelift $6,629 $6,231

Forehead Lift $3,173 $3,161

Hair Transplantation no data $4,676

Hyaluronic Acid (Juvederm) $558 $547

IPL Laser Treatment $384 $470

Laser Hair Removal $314 $383

Laser Skin resurfacing (ablative) $2,232 $2,040

Laser Skin resurfacing (non-ablative) $952 $1,156

Laser Treatment of Leg Veins $351 $404

Lip Augmentation (surgical) $2,022 $1,683

Liposuction $2,914 $2,884

Lower Body Lift $7,904 $7,247

Microdermabrasion $123 $146

Polylactic Acid (Sculptra) $897 $940

Polymethyl Methacrylate (Artefill) no data $1,099

Rhinoplasty $4,314 $4,306

Sclerotherapy $344 $354

Thigh Lift $4,882 $4,507

Tummy Tuck (abdominoplasty) $5,332 $5,130

Upper Arm Lift $4,070 $3,729

Vaginal Rejuvenation no data no data

The cost of plastic surgery is dependent on a few factors, cost for the actual procedure, amount of work involved, medications, anesthesia, medical tests, surgical garments or other miscellaneous fees related to the surgery.