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Plastic Surgery Case Study – Dermal-Fat Graft Augmentation of the Lips

Background: Lip augmentation is one of the more popular uses of injectable synthetic fillers and has been so for more than two decades. They offer an immediate and non-surgical method of lip augmentation that works fairly well when adequate vermilion height exists. But it does require periodic injections to maintain the effect and injections into Read More…

Technical Strategies – The V-Y Mucosal Lower Lip Advancement

The most common form of lip augmentation is injectable fillers and typical aesthetic reason for doing so is for bigger or more full lips. Far more lip augmentations are done on the upper lip than the lower lip due to the frequent occurrence of the lower lip being bigger. Such size matches are based on Read More…

Technical Strategies – The Placement of Lip Implants

Lip augmentation is most commonly done by injection techniques. While effective lip injections are limited by either the temporary duration of their effects or the unpredictability of injected fat survival. Other materials have been implanted into the lip (dermal grafts/substitutes) but they all suffer similar outcome fates. Despite the limited effects of injectable lip fillers, Read More…

Surgical Creation of the Lower Lip Dip

Unlike the upper lip, the lower lip has few distinguishing features. While the upper lip has the distinction of a central Cupid’s bow, the lower lip has a straight vermilion-cutaneous line only. It shape is marked by a thicker central region (increased vermilion show) compared to less full sides that extend into the mouth corners. Read More…

The Cause and Treatment of the Upper Lip Horizontal Crease

The upper lip is subject to a variety of lines and wrinkles as one ages, particularly in females. The vertical lines of the upper lip are the most recognized and are due to the activity of the sphincteric orbicularis muscle. Another type of aging line is that of the horizontal upper lip crease. While less Read More…

Lip Augmentation and Lip Aesthetics

The shape and size of the lips, particularly in females, is an important feature of the lower third of the face. This is very apparent when one looks at the tremendous popularity aesthetic lip augmentation, primarily done by injectable fillers, has enjoyed over the past two decades. Despite their popularity and the tens of milions Read More…

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