Have you ever noticed or being complained of your deadpan face while you are buried into your smart phone or laptop for hours? If not then please go and face the mirror as it’s time to smell the coffee before it’s too late.

Over usage of smart phones can turn you look like a Smart Phone face, which is a poker face marked with no expression and a low jaw line. So next time if your face shows sagging jowls, double chins, and marionette lines, and creases on both sides of mouth, blame your over-usage of smart phones.

Dr Mervyn Petterson, a British cosmetic surgeon, who coined this term, reveals more on it by saying, "If you sit for hours with your head bent slightly forward, staring at your iPhone or laptop screen, you may shorten the neck muscles and increase the gravitational pull on the jowl area, leading to a drooping jaw line."

He spoke more on emphasizing the over-usage of your smart devices, "Smartphones are known to cause chronic upper back and neck problems like kyphotic deformities and neck strain, as a result of the head constantly drooping down by looking at the screen for long hours. The smaller the screen, the more one tends to bend the neck and elbow. Prolonged neck flexion causes loosening of the neck skin and aggravates the double chin deformity in people already predisposed to it."

So use your smart phone smartly and wisely.

Source: TNN