Facial rhytidosis
Conditions
Interventions
Between January 2025 and April 2025, rhytidoplasty surgeries for the aesthetic treatment of facial laxity and rhytidosis will be performed on 15 patients from the Face Outpatient Clinic of the Plastic
Sponsors
Escola Paulista de Medicina da Universidade Federal de São Paulo
Escola Paulista de Medicina da Universidade Federal de São Paulo
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
Female
Age
45 Years to 60 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Female patients; aged between 45 and 60 years; voluntary attendance at the Plastic Surgery Clinic at Universidade Federal de São Paulo – Escola Paulista de Medicina; complaints of rhytidosis and facial laxity
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Patients who have undergone facial surgeries, implants, malar fillers, or chemical or physical peels in the past 12 months; diagnosis of uncontrolled acute or chronic diseases such as diabetes mellitus, systemic arterial hypertension, healing disorders, autoimmune diseases, collagen diseases, infectious diseases, and psychiatric disorders; smokers; use of anticoagulants, antiplatelet agents, or corticosteroids; history of hypersensitivity to anesthetics; illiteracy; abandonment of clinical follow-up at any stage of the research or voluntary withdrawal from participation during the study; undergoing any other aesthetic facial procedure during the 6-month follow-up, such as Botox injections, facial fillers with hyaluronic acid, chemical peels, microneedling, fractional lasers, non-surgical facelifts, radiofrequency treatments, and CO2 resurfacing procedures
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| To assess the perceived age of patients before and after undergoing rhytidoplasty using the plication, High SMAS, and Deep Plane techniques; measured by the average age estimates from volunteer evaluators and artificial intelligence systems (Apple Vision Framework, Microsoft Azure Face API, and Amazon Rekognition). | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| To evaluate the perceived attractiveness, success, and health of patients after rhytidoplasty; analyzed using 0 to 100 scales assigned by volunteer evaluators in specific questionnaires;;To compare the difference in perceived age when evaluators analyze pre- and postoperative photographs together versus exclusive postoperative analysis, using online questionnaires as the data collection method;;To observe the consistency between perceived age estimates from artificial intelligence systems and human evaluators, using the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) to measure agreement. | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactJosé Carvalho Junior
Universidade Federal de São Paulo
Outcome results
None listed