[Preoperative psychological evaluation of patients undergoing rhytidoplasty]

In order to evaluate the dynamics of personality in a group of women submitted to surgical treatment of the aging face. The purpose of the study was to find out the motivation and expectations regarding the surgery. Twenty-eight women, with the overage age of 49 years, were studied. The method used included questionnaire, the tests Drawings of Figure Human and Crown-Crisp Experiential Index. Twenty-two of the patients answered that the personal satisfaction the mais purpose the operation. They also believed that the plastic surgery would lead to a better professional and social activity. The patients wanted to have a good feminime and youthful appearance. The results of the Crown-Crisp were significant for obsessionality, somatic anxiety and hysteria and non significant for free-floting anxiety, phobic anxiety and depression.