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Case Study – Lip Advancement Revisions

Background: Lip augmentations are very popular and are most commonly done with the use of injectable fillers. But not every smaller lip can be satisfactorily augmented by fillers alone and, even when a satisfactory result is achieved, women may eventually tire of the need for repeated injection sessions and their cost. A lip advancement is Read More…

The Permalip Facial Implant For Lip Augmentation

Despite that lip augmentation is sought by many women (and a few men), the perfect procedure to accomplish it remains elusive. A wide variety of treatment options exist to achieve bigger lips from injectable fillers and fat to surgical manipulations of the vermilion and skin excisions. Injectable fillers are by far the most common lip Read More…

Case Study: Upper Lip Advancement in a Man

Background: There are many options for lip enhancement today of which injectable fillers is by far the most commonly used. But for a permanent change in size, surgical options must be considered. Two basic types of lip lifts exists done either from under the nose (subnasal lip lift)or from the edge of the top of Read More…

Postoperative Instructions for Lip Implants

The use of implants for lip augmentation is a surgical procedure that adds permanent volume to the lips. It is done as an office procedure under local anesthesia if done alone or in the operating room under general anesthesia if it is included as part of a collection of other plastic surgery procedures. The Read More…

Treatment Options for Vertical Upper Lip Lines

The face develops many visible signs of aging. But none are more problematic or pesky than that of upper lip lines or vertical rhytids. Such lip lines are very bothersome to women as they not only suggest an older lip but also cause problems with lipstick, often bleeding into the lower end of the Read More…

Case Study: Adult Primary Cleft Lip Repair

Background: Cleft lip and palate deformities are a well recognized birth defects that affects around 1:1000 births. In the U.S., they commonly undergo a primary repair of the cleft lip in the first three to six months of life. Outside of the U.S., American plastic surgeons are well known to travel all over the Read More…

Case Study: Male Lip Implant Augmentation

Background: Lip augmentation is a popular procedure that is most commonly done with the use of injectable fillers. Any of the family of hyaluronic-acid based fillers offers an immediate improvement in which the material can be placed in a variety of lip locations to create both increased size and/or enhancement of various lip features. Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The Complexity of Lip Anatomy

The lips on a face seem relatively uncomplicated, seemingly two simple strips of red-colored tissue placed in a horizontal orientation as the gateway to the mouth. But their shape is actually more complex than it seems as evidenced by the named descriptions of different anatomical points. (cupid’s bow, philtral columns, commissures, vermilion, vermilion-cutaneous junction) Each Read More…

Plastic Surgery Product Review: PermaLip Implants

Lip augmentation is one of the most popular minimally-invasive cosmetic procedures of the face. Done almost exclusively with injectable fillers, it produces instantaneous augmentation of the vermilion-cutaneous junction or the lip body proper. Of last year’s nearly 2 million injectable filler treatments performed in the U.S., a significant percent of them was for lip enhancement. Read More…