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"When people age, the eyes appear hollow, deep-set. And, in fact, that's what we found. The cheek bones right beneath the eye socket descend somewhat and come back in. As a result, they don't give as much support to the lower eyelid."
"The same was true of the jaw, he says. "If you think about the aged face, there's sort of a lack of definition in the jaw line. And that's what we saw in the CT scans." As the jawbone became thinner, the chin receded, so that the scans of the oldest people looked a little slack-jawed."