In recent years, becoming more popular procedures for lip augmentation. You can enlarge the lips, making them more full and sexy. Men and women can increase the lips at any age. It is possible to increase the separateness of the upper and lower lip, or – at the same time.

Increase the volume of the lips can be injection of natural or synthetic materials, plant transplants or using plastic surgery. Optionally, you can count on a permanent or temporary effect.

The procedure for lip augmentation is combined with the production of other facial implants, chemical or laser peeling, the introduction of BOTOX. Lip augmentation can reduce expression wrinkles around the mouth.

Indications for lip augmentation

  • Thin lips
  • Desire to have fuller lips
  • Asymmetrical lips
  • Wrinkles around the mouth

Surgical technique

The most common method of lip augmentation is an injection of fillers. Fillers – injectable substances are natural and synthetic origin, respectively, absorbable and nonabsorbable. Most frequently used materials based on collagen, hyaluronic acid, silicone (Collost, Restylane, biopolymer gel). Distributed by the introduction of autologous fat (Lipofilling).

As an alternative, perhaps laser rejuvenation lip combines deep exfoliation with destruction (clenching) collagen deeply lying tissues. Another more aggressive option is to VY plastic surgery is chiloplasty requiring obscure cuts on his lips, but it gives a more lasting effect. When VY plasty incisions are made on the part of the oral cavity.

As an option, which decreases the size of the upper lip, it is possible chiloplasty lips with the performance of external incisions along the red fringe, or under the nose (cut bulhorn – bull horn).

Anesthesia (general anesthesia)

With lip augmentation with fillers used local anesthesia.

At various plastic surgery is preferred general anesthesia (intravenous anesthesia).

Duration of procedure

Lip augmentation fillers runs for 10-20 minutes. In reconstructive operations it takes about 1 hour.

Hospital stay

Lip augmentation fillers – an outpatient procedure

Postoperative period and rehabilitation

Early postoperative period followed by time-painful sensations, usually passing within a few days. To speed up the recovery period and reduce the risk of complications in the postoperative period, you must fulfill all the recommendations of your doctor.

To everyday life with some limitations you can begin within days after the procedure.

Risks

The modern technique of surgical intervention reduces the risks to a minimum.

On the possible complications can be found in the informed consent for surgery lip augmentation.

If you decide on the plastic lips, we expect that the information provided was useful for you.

For more information about how lip augmentation could help you, about the indications and contraindications of the method, we recommend that you consult a plastic surgeon with experience in operations on the lips.