A research stated that patients who had undergone facial cosmetic surgery experienced three years younger, than they did before their operations. However, they can subtract only their years and were not rated as looking any more attractive or beauty. A face-lift or eyelid lift may make you look slightly younger but not attractive, a new study suggests.

The researchers also tried to notify and research about the improvements in attractiveness after surgery, which are often subjective.  Dr. A. Joshua Zimm, of the Lenox Hill Hospital and Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Institute of North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System said “Patients come to us because they want to look younger and look refreshed,”. Then he added that “We typically avoid telling patients, ‘we’re going to make you look X amount younger'” or more attractive, and we don’t want to create false or unrealistic expectations Zimm said. ”

The researchers hope that this new study will show a significant difference in attractiveness before and after surgery. And because the study focused on plastic surgery for aging, it excluded patients who’d had nose jobs or non-surgical lip or winkle injections, the researchers said.

The researchers examined with the raters by showing their photos of 49 patient’s aged between 42 and 73 that had undergone facial cosmetic surgery. The raters were asked to guess the age of the person in the photo, and rate that person’s attractiveness on a scale of 1 to 10. When looking at before-surgery photos, raters estimated patients to be 2.1 years younger than their actual age. When looking at after-surgery photos, raters estimated 5.2 years younger than the actual age, meaning the surgery took about three years off of the patients’ perceived age.

Most participants were given attractiveness scores between 4 and 6, and there was no difference between scores before and after the surgery.

Face-lift and neck lift procedures or additional eyelid surgery takes about seven years off a person’s age. The new study may have found a smaller difference in perceived age before and after surgery because this research included patients who’d had less extensive surgery, such as eyelid surgery alone or a brow lift alone, the researchers said.

To be included in the new study, patients had to have photographs on file that were taken at least six months after their surgery. This may have excluded some patients who were very happy with their results and did not come back to the doctor, Zimmsaid.