Category: lip advancement

Techniques in Mouth Widening Surgery

The mouth occupies the center of the face and is a prominent facial feature. The mouth is well is known to be a sensual structure whose perception is primarily influenced by the size of the lips, particularly in females. As a result, lip augmentation usually by injection is the most aesthetic procedure performed in the Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Transgender Lip Augmentation by Vermilion Advancements

Background: The lips frame the mouth and are an important facial feature. What is seen on the lips is the dry vermilion with a little wet vermilion, known as the red part of the lips. The amount of vermilion seen determines the size of the lips. The junction of the vermilion and the skin, particularly Read More…

Technical Strategies – Mouth Widening in Scar Contractures

The width of the mouth and the flexibility of the lips are important for food intake and oral hygiene. They not only permit the lower jaw to open fully but also allow mobility of the adjacent facial soft tissues with expression. Having a ‘loose’ oral sphincter is taken for granted until one doesn’t have that Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Lower Lip Advancement for Subtotal Hemangioma Excision

Background: The lips are composed of both wet and dry tissue known as vermilion. Known as the pink or red part of the lips its presence and size determines whether the size of the lips is interpreted. But the one red tissue one does not want on their lips is a hemangioma. Hemangiomas are benign Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Extreme Upper and Lower Lip Advancements with Mouth Corner Lifts

Background: Lip augmentation is one of the most popular non-surgical facial enhancement procedures. Done primarily by synthetic injectable fillers the size of the lips can be increased for the duration of the filler’s persistence. When skillfully done injectable fillers can create a myriad of perioral effects from lip size increase, correction of lip asymmetries and Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Lip Advancements for Permanent Lip Liner Removal

Background: The size and shape of the lips has taken on great aesthetic significance over the past two decades. Many makeup, injectable and surgical methods have been devised and are available to enhance one’s lips. The usual goals are to make the lips look bigger with increased vermilion show and projection as well as a Read More…

Cupid’s Bow Reduction of the Upper Lip

Unlike the lower lip the shape of the upper lip is marked by the cupid’s bow area. Occupying the central third of the upper lip, its two raised peaks at the end of the philtral columns create a double bow effect. This lip feature is well known and has the cupid’s bow name because its Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Subnasal Lip Lift with Lateral Vermilion Advancements

Background: Rejuvenation of a long upper lip can only be reliably done by removing skin somewhere between the nose and the upper lip. The most common procedure to do so is known as the subnasal lip lift. It is more popular and commonly done than its cousin the upper lip advancement due to the less Read More…

Surgical Techniques for Mouth Asymmetry

Asymmetry of the mouth is not rare and consists of differences in the size and shape of the vermilion and/or the corner of the mouth. One side of the upper lip may be smaller than the other side or the corners of the mouth may be at different horizontal levels. Some patients affected by mouth Read More…

Technical Strategies – Cupid’s Bow Lift of the Upper Lip

Augmentation of the upper lip is one of the most commonly done non-surgical facial enhancement procedures. This can usually be successfully done through the use of a variety of different hyaluronic acid-based injectable fillers. Despite their popularity and frequency of use, however, injectable fillers can not solve all aesthetic upper lip concerns. A thin upper Read More…