Table 1.
Typical Age-related Changes in Facial Appearance and Their Common Decade of Occurrence
≤20s | 30s–40s | 50+ |
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Smooth, glowing skin | Onset of fine rhytids and photodamage | Deepening static and dynamic rhytids with significant photodamage |
Continuous contours | ||
Onset of facial grooves and foldsIncreased soft tissue laxity | Volume/projection loss at all tissue levels | |
Defined facial borders | Deepened folds | |
Gravitational descent from significant tissue laxity and volume loss |