Lip Surgery

Fuller lips have always been much desired feature for sensual looks. Lip augmentation can enhance thin lips, with the help of lip implants or fillers, giving a more attractive look to your face. It is also applicable for removal of fine lines around the mouth and wrinkles. Lip surgery is often used in conjunction with facial lift surgery to produce ever better visual results.

   

Suitable Candidates for Lip Augmentation –

Any adult with thin lips and age-resulting lines around lips are good candidates for lip augmentation surgery. Candidates who do not smoke and have a general healthy lifestyle are more benefited from this procedure. There are various methods of conducting lip augmentation, which may not suit everyone. So, patients should openly discuss about any allergies with their surgeon, before choosing a lip surgery technique.

Pre-Consultation for Lip Surgery –

In a pre-consultation session with your surgeon, you should be candid about your aim for lip surgery and expectations from its outcomes. Surgeons will take in account your medical history of previous surgeries, current medication and allergies to specific compound. He will need to perform skin allergy test prior to lip surgery. In case patients exhibit positive results should not undergo lip augmentation surgery.

Lip Augmentation Surgery Procedure –

Step1: Surgeon will mark strategic points around your lips and mouth to guide him when injecting fillers, to augment lips and fill lines around the mouth
Step2: These points are cleansed thoroughly with anti-bacterial agent to prevent any allergy. Fillers itself contain local anesthesia.
Step3: Injections are made, taking only few minutes per site.
Step4 : Markings are cleaned after injections and icing is done to alleviate any discomfort.

For sites that require deeper injections, for more volume, additional local anesthesia is administered.

Types of Lip Augmentation Surgery Techniques –

In all, lip augmentation can be carried out in three different ways, with numerous types of materials used in each one of them, giving patients a wide array of choice.

  1. Lip Fillers – Lip fillers come in wide range of variety. Most of them contain anesthesia and do not require additional anesthesia to be administered suing surgery. Lip surgery last about 30 minutes and produce results that are temporary, retaining up to 6 months. For those who are considering permanent increase in lip volume should try out first with lip filler technique for lip enhancement, to ensure the results as per your requirement.
    Types of injectable fillers available are collagen based and hyaluronic acid based fillers.
  2. Lip Implants – For those who wish to have permanent lip augmentation, implants are a perfect choice. Lip Surgery, using lip implants, takes about an hour. Implant technique involves making of incision around lips, based on what results are expected. Implants are placed in the tunnel created by the surgeon and are threaded to the lips. Lip implants are then precisely trimmed to obtain natural-looking results. Incisions are closed. The different lip implants available are Gore-Tex, AlloDerm and SoftForm implants.
  3. Fat Transfer – This technique uses fat removed from a patient’s body, usually thigh or abdomen, for lip augmentation. Fat tissues are subsequently injected at mark sites on lips, leaving tiny marks, usually not noticeable. Since the donor of tissue is the patient itself, the chances of rejection or allergy are rare.

Risks and Recovery for Lip Surgery –

There are minimal risks specifically associated with lip augmentation surgery. Rare risks include scarring, lumping of limps, numbness or cold sores. There are general risks of plastic surgery like bleeding, infection and poor wound healing. Recovery from lip surgery depends on technique used for surgery. Lip filler technique takes short period of a week to heal, however, other 2 need time period of several weeks. Numbness and stiffness may retain up to 3 months after the lip surgery procedure.

With low-risks and recovery time period, more and more women are going for lip augmentation surgery to boost their aesthetic looks.