Cosmetic Surgery & Beauty #72
Cosmetic Surgery and Beauty is the definitive consumer guide to aesthetic enhancement in Australia. Written by medical journalists and industry experts CSBM covers everything you need to know and with hundreds of untouched before and after photos it is the authoritative information source.
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newsfront<br />
Study shows<br />
wearing contact<br />
lenses increases<br />
risk of drooping<br />
upper eyelids<br />
A new study says wearing contact lenses increases the risk<br />
of droopy upper eyelids, a cosmetic and visual problem<br />
that can be corrected by blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery).<br />
Researchers found an increase of droopy eyelids (ptosis)<br />
was associated with the use of both soft and hard lenses,<br />
but that ptosis was more severe for people who wore hard<br />
contact lenses.<br />
The study, published in the Aesthetic <strong>Surgery</strong> Journal,<br />
was conducted on 96 sets of identical twins that had<br />
diff ering severities of drooping eyelids.<br />
Because identical twins have the same facial<br />
characteristics, changes are typically contributed to<br />
environmental factors.<br />
‘We assessed the correlations of many diff erent<br />
environmental factors that could contribute to upper eyelid<br />
droopy eyelids, and wearing contact lenses was the only<br />
external factor that was linked,’ explained lead researcher<br />
Dr Bahman Guyuron.<br />
‘This is attributed to the recurrent traction of the eyelid<br />
during placement and removal of the lens.’<br />
Other possible contributors such as sun exposure,<br />
smoking, stress and alcohol use were ruled out as not<br />
having a statistically signifi cant impact on upper eyelid<br />
dropping.<br />
Researchers analysed digital photographs and social/<br />
medical history questionnaires from a database that<br />
contained information collected at the annual Twins Day<br />
Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio, from 2008 to 2010.<br />
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