A nose job can make you look younger, study finds

A nose job can make you look younger, study finds

Getting a nose job could have the added benefit of making you appear younger, a new study found.

Researchers at the University of Toronto in Canada collected “before” and “after” pictures of 53 patients aged 15 to 61 who had undergone rhinoplasty operations. They showed them to a group of 50 volunteers, who were then asked to guess their ages.

Half of the group viewed the pre-operative pictures first and were shown the “after” ones a month later. The rest of the volunteers were asked to examine the pictures in reverse order. The patients were judged to look on average 1.5 years younger after their nose jobs.

The researchers also found that rhinoplasties were particularly effective at “rejuvenating” the face if they adjusted the nose in two ways: reduction of the “dorsal hump” at the top of the nose and increase of the nasolabial angle, which measures how much the tip of the nose is turned.

The findings, published in the January/February issue of the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery, concluded: “This is the first study to demonstrate a statistically significant decrease in apparent age after rhinoplasty. This decrease in apparent age is an extra positive benefit of rhinoplasty, in addition to an increase in the harmony of facial features and the improvement of overall facial aesthetics.”