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The Aging Face

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International Textbook of Aesthetic Surgery

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Half a millennium has passed since Leonardo da Vinci composed this frank, yet detailed self-portrait in which he described the effects of time on his face. Our preoccupation with facial aging has a long and well-deserved history. It is difficult to envisage da Vinci’s portrait devoid of the extensive grooves and furrows, such is their contribution to our perception of what the artist is showing us. A brief glimpse of a person’s face affords a wealth of information, including an estimate of the person’s age, gender, emotional state, racial background, and energy levels. We use these cues, almost subliminally, to guide our interactions with people, as the cues are predictive of the behaviour we should expect from each person in return.

Tempus fugit. Time flees.

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  1. The Centre for Facial Plastic Surgery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Bryan C. Mendelson FRCSE, FRACS, FACS

  2. Taylor Laboratory, Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Justin X. O’Brien MD

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    Nicolò Scuderi

  2. University of California- San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

    Bryant A. Toth

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Mendelson, B.C., O’Brien, J.X. (2016). The Aging Face. In: Scuderi, N., Toth, B. (eds) International Textbook of Aesthetic Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46599-8_60

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