Many options for lip enhancement

Philip Young, MD answers: What's the best lip enhancement and plumping?

What options do I have for lip augmentation?


Philip Young, MD
6 months ago

There are many options for lip enhancement / augmentation, including filling and surgical approaches. Filling up the lips is perhaps the best way to rejuvenate the lips.  Careful positioning of the filler substance within the lips will bring more youth to the lips and give it that sexy look. Fillers are a short term option and fat injections offer more long term correction. 

Surgical procedures can remove small amounts of skin and can also be used to move around the substance of the lips inside your mouth to augment your lips in a beautiful way. But all of these mean nothing if your surgeon doesn't have the right goals in mind.

Facial aesthetics or the understanding of facial beauty is essential for surgeons to formulate these goals that we reach for. In the lips, your upper lip should really never be too much bigger than 1/2 the height of the lower lip. Also, the pucker created by the lip should be a certain size in the upper and lower lips.

Consulting a Board Certified Facial Plastic Surgeon would be something that I would recommend. We specialize in the face and are highly qualified to help you with this.

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