TY - JOUR
T1 - Update on facial aging.
AU - Fitzgerald, Rebecca
AU - Graivier, Miles H.
AU - Kane, Michael
AU - Lorenc, Z. Paul
AU - Vleggaar, Danny
AU - Werschler, Wm Philip
AU - Kenkel, Jeffrey M.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Facial aging was once thought to be the result of the relentless downward pull of gravity on skin and underlying fat. In turn, facial fat was believed to be a contiguous sheet of tissue. However, over the past four decades, a number of investigators have examined more closely the causes of facial aging, leading to a better understanding of age-related changes, and have confirmed and further explored the proposal by Gonzalez-Ulloa and Flores in 1965 that facial aging involves changes in muscle and bone, as well as skin and fat. Further, the recent work of Rohrich and Pessa (and other authors) has demonstrated that facial fat is not a sheet of tissue, but rather is compartmentalized throughout the face. This discovery has allowed the evolution of improved techniques for facial rejuvenation.
AB - Facial aging was once thought to be the result of the relentless downward pull of gravity on skin and underlying fat. In turn, facial fat was believed to be a contiguous sheet of tissue. However, over the past four decades, a number of investigators have examined more closely the causes of facial aging, leading to a better understanding of age-related changes, and have confirmed and further explored the proposal by Gonzalez-Ulloa and Flores in 1965 that facial aging involves changes in muscle and bone, as well as skin and fat. Further, the recent work of Rohrich and Pessa (and other authors) has demonstrated that facial fat is not a sheet of tissue, but rather is compartmentalized throughout the face. This discovery has allowed the evolution of improved techniques for facial rejuvenation.
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U2 - 10.1177/1090820x10378696
DO - 10.1177/1090820x10378696
M3 - Review article
C2 - 20844296
AN - SCOPUS:79952118001
SN - 1090-820X
VL - 30 Suppl
SP - 11S-24S
JO - Aesthetic surgery journal / the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic surgery
JF - Aesthetic surgery journal / the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic surgery
ER -