“Not true,” says Newport Beach, Calif., plastic surgeon Val Lambros, M.D. “There is no science, and people have no concept about how the face ages, and they will find justification in whatever procedures they like to do.”
Dr. Lambros presented “Unraveling the secrets of facial aging” at the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery’s The Aesthetic Meeting 2017 in San Diego, Calif.
For more than a decade, Dr. Lambros has collected and studied 3-dimensional facial images to better understand facial aging’s progression using a 3-dimensional camera system (Vectra, Canfield Scientific) to create facial aging progression averages. Dr. Lambros and coauthor Gideon Amos, PhD, an employee of Canfield Scientific and developer of the software, published a paper on the topic December 2016 in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
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