Los Gatos Lip Augmentation doctors
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Vincent D. Lepore, MD
San Jose Plastic Surgeon
2581 Samaritan Drive Suite 102, San Jose |
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Daryl K. Hoffman, MD
Los Gatos Plastic Surgeon
805 El Camino Real Suite A, Palo Alto |
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Kirk A. Churukian, MD
Los Gatos Plastic Surgeon
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C. Gregory Jellinek, MD
Los Gatos Plastic Surgeon
15251 National Ave Suite 207 , Los Gatos |
Recent Answers
I was injected microdroplets of vegetable oil in my lips in a cosmetic studio 9 months ago (huge mistake!).Directly after it looked horrible(huge lumps), now after nine months I've seenabout 40% improvement but they're still there.Will this go away by itself since it's not synthetic or what can be done except excision? Massaging doesn't seem to help.5-FU injection directly into the hard lumps or steroid injections or something else? What has the least side effects and what are the costs! Thanks
Renee, you should be examined by a board certified plastic surgeon. If you can find out exactly what was injected into your lips - brand, chemical make up, if the product was sterilized, etc. - this will be helpful to your treating physician. Although there may be a number of treatment options for your situation, all treatments carry risks and you should consider this before having anything further done to your lips. Above all, do not have any more injections of vegetable oil into your lips.
What is the Best Treatment for Getting Larger Looking Lips?
There are a number of options for making lips larger or lip augmentation. They include injectable fillers such as Hyaluronic acid (Restylane, Juvederm, etc.), fat injections, and silicone implants. Of these options the Hyaluronic acid Fillers are the easiest and safest to preform (the injection can be reversed with an injection of another chemical - Hyaluronidase - which will dissolve the filler). Although the filler will gradually resorb over time and need to be repeated, the results are usually more predictable and natural looking than some of the other options.
