Cosmetic Plastic Surgery + Smiles = Long Marriages?

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In our last blog, we said we would tell you more about an exciting new study that reveals how a great smile can save your marriage or relationship.

Now, we don’t intend to steal the thunder of your favorite cosmetic dentist but the area around the mouth can reduce a set of perfect, dazzling teeth to only a so-so smile.

Psychology professor Matthew Hertenstein at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, and three colleagues wondered how a beaming smile affected a person’s personal life. So the doc collared 600 volunteers who had college yearbook pictures available.

The psychologists then ranked the smiles.

Findings? The less people smiled, the more likely they would divorce later on in life.

Professor Hertenstein compared the top ten percent of biggest smilers with the basement dwelling ten percent of smilers. He found that lousy smilers were five times more likely to split the sheets than those with wide grins.

So where do plastic cosmetic surgeons fit into this picture?

It all relates to an area in plastic surgery known as Expression Surgery.

If your mouth area is wrinkled and the corners of your mouth turn down because of facial folds known as Marionette lines, cosmetic surgery has some relief. If your eyelids are baggy and hanging down over your eyes, you will look older and more haggard as well as less friendly. A plastic surgeon can let that smile-enhancing twinkle in your eyes shine through by reducing the bags that form under your eyes.

Start with the lips. As we age, the once lush, plump lips of both men and women tend to slim down considerably. Even in men (check out a 1970-ish picture of Burt Reynolds!) plump lips not only frame a smile but indicate desirability. Many handy products – like Juvederm and Restylane – are available for lip augmentation.

If the skin around the mouth is badly wrinkled, even a megawatt smile will be dimmed. But a chemical peel, a laser peel or dermabrasion, you can make that area much more appealing.

For the Marionette lines, the folds that run from the edges of the mouth down the chin, even more facial fillers than Juvederm and Restylane are now available.

Some plastic surgeons even have procedures to surgically lift downturned edges at the corner of the mouth, enhancing your smile.

Interesting in twinkling eyes? Read more about eyelid surgery.

admin @ December 26, 2009