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The latest issue of the Aesthetic Surgery Journal includes a scientific study about how gender affects facial wrinkling.  Research was conducted by plastic surgeons in the Netherlands.

But let’s just get to the point shall we?  Here are the documented reasons women wrinkle earlier and more severely than men:

1. If you’re a woman, the skin surrounding your mouth has fewer sweat and sebaceous glands, which are important for hydration and skin fullness.
2. You also may have fewer blood vessels in the same area.
3. The muscular fibers surrounding the orifice of a woman’s mouth are also more closely attached, which causes an “inward traction” and therefore, deeper wrinkles.

Read more on the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery website.

Can plastic surgery procedures be considered a marital asset?  That’s what a North Dakota attorney argued in a recent divorce case.  According to an AP article in the Star Tribune, the judge called the idea “nonsense.”  Read: N.D. High Court considers Lasik, Breast implants values in divorce case

In the UK, employees of a cosmetic surgery clinic are showing off their surgery results in a special 2010 calendar.  They say the “calendar is tongue-in-cheek, but tasteful” and “it features girls of all ages and they all look amazing.”  Read and see slideshow: The Sun News: Cosmetic Surgery Calendar Girls.

The word has definitely spread about the proposed elective cosmetic tax, and plastic surgeons and other professionals are definitely opinionated about it. Some of the recent criticisms of the tax are downright scathing. Read Bloomberg News: Breast Enlargement Tax That Failed in Jersey Taints U.S. Plan.

Many journalists are talking about it, large groups of plastic surgeons have spoken out against it, but what do the patients think?

Since last week when the proposed tax on cosmetic procedures was unveiled in the health care reform bill, we’ve heard many arguments for and against the tax.  However, the patients will be paying for it.  So, what do they think?

If you have undergone an elective plastic surgery procedure, answer our online poll below.