The Dumb Phone

According to statistics released by a recent study conducted by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) ’chinplants’ are quickly becoming the fastest growing cosmetic surgery trend. Care to guess what the main culprit for this crazy trend is? That’s right, Smartphones!

If the ASPS study is right, sagging faces, dubbed “Smarphone face” could be behind the growing trend for skin tightening treatments and chin implants which cost around £4,290.

“If you sit for hours with your head bent slightly forward, staring at your iPhone or laptop screen, you may shorten the neck muscles and increase the gravitational pull on the jowl area, leading to a drooping jawline.” Dr Mervyn Patterson of the Woodford Medical group told the Evening Standard.

The so called “Smartphone Face” condition received a little more backing by Dr Mervyn Patterson of the Woodford Medical group who shared, ’If you sit for hours with your head bent slightly forward, staring at your iPhone or laptop screen, you may shorten the neck muscles and increase the gravitational pull on the jowl area, leading to a drooping jawline.

There has been a 71 per cent increase in the procedure being carried out in the U.S in the past year, with many of them being performed on high school girls desperate to look more glamorous than their peers.

Source: Smartphones To Blame For Sagging Faces? One Study Thinks So.