The dimpleplasty surgery will not give entirely natural results however. The dimples themselves will remain permanently rather than only appearing when the patient smiles.

The actual dimpleplasty surgery involves the cosmetic surgeon making a tiny cut in the skin to create a small depression. A stitch is then used to hold the underside of the skin down to a deeper layer and hold it in place, creating the dimple indent. Once this suture dissolves, permanent scar tissue should remain holding the indent in place.

Caution should be advised with this cosmetic surgery as it is relatively new and therefore there are no long-term studies over it’s efficacy or results over time. There is as yet no study showing how the dimple will age and some people are concerned that the dimple may start to look slightly peculiar as the face ages and droops slightly.

Although most of the dimple enquiries have come from women, a small number of men are also looking to have this surgery done to create a chin cleft.

Though scientists have been able to regenerate sheets of skin for decades, it is a lengthy process and the resulting skin is extremely fragile. The standard method of regenerating skin takes weeks and sometimes months, during which time patients can die from infection. 

The stem cell shooting spray gun treats the skin in 1.5 hours and reduces healing time to days. Though the gun is still in experimentation, it has already successfully treated more than a dozen patients. It works by isolating stem cells from healthy parts of the patient's skin and adding them to a solution which is prepared for spraying. Doctor Gerlach said: 'We isolate the stem cells from the healthy part of the skin which can be taken in a water solution and is then prepared for cell spraying. 'It takes one and a half hours to take the biopsy, to isolate the cells and to spray the cells.'

The cell spray gun will be featured on the National Geographic Channel's How to Build a Beating Heart, which will be shown on Monday February 7.