NEW FACES FOR OLD

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 38, 7 May 1927, Page 5

NEW FACES FOR OLD

PLASTIC SURGERY MAKING WOMEN YOUNGER In 20 minutes Dr. Raymond Passot, of Paris, claims by means of plastic surgery to make a woman look 20 years younger. Dr. Passot, who was during the war in charge of a hospital for soldiers wounded in the face, is now devoting his skill to the rejuvenation of women. Recently he described his methods in a lecture at the Institut Francais, South Kensington. “I have performed more than 2,000 operations on women who wished to look younger,” Dr. Passot told a Press representative recently. “It is a mistake to suppose that it is only the coquette who wishes to have her face ‘lifted.’ In Stockholm, for instance, where no woman ever powders her nose, I found that women who were earning their living were eager to have the operation. They realised that in modern life the woman wage-earner must look young.” FILM OF OPERATION Dr. Passot showed an English Press representative a cinematograph film of one of his operations. The subject was a woman of 60. A local anaesthetic was given, the face was painted with tincture of iodine, and a preparation to stop bleeding, wrinkles, crow’s feet, and pouches were moved after the skin had been cut, and within half an hour the woman was ready to go home, happy in the belief that she looked no more than 40.

“The essence of plastic surgery is that it leaves no scar,” Dr. Passot said. “The operation is not suitable for old ladies, but is highly successful with those who are beginning to be old. Most of my patients have been between 33 and 50. For every man who comes to me I have 30 women.” Women who want Grecian noses go to Dr. Passot. So do those who prefer a tilted nose. Victims of obtruding ears have had them corrected. Dr. Passot showed many photographs of women before and after treatment. Women who felt that they had lost their powers of attraction have had the operation in the hope that they would afterwards look like young girls. The Press representative was informed that there are surgeons in London who have had great successes in restoring the lost beauty of women, but medical etiquette in England forbids them to advertise their success.