The researchers took three photographs of each person - one each from 12 inches and 18 inches away with a cellphone to simulate selfies taken with a bent or straight arm, and a third from 5 feet with a digital single-lens reflex camera, typically used in plastic surgery clinics. Amirlak and his colleagues worked with 30 volunteers: 23 women and seven men. To investigate how selfies might alter appearance, Dr. However, because cameras can distort images, especially when photographs are taken at close range, selfies may not reflect an individual's true appearance. There's a documented relationship, he added, between the increase in selfie photographs and an increase in requests for rhinoplasty - or surgery to alter the appearance of the nose - particularly among younger patients. Amirlak explained that patients increasingly use photographs they've taken with a smartphone camera to discuss their goals with a plastic surgeon. "If young people are using selfies as their only guide, they may be coming to plastic surgeons to fix problems that don't exist except in the world of social media," said study leader Bardia Amirlak, M.D., Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery at UT Southwestern.ĭr.
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