Juvederm Injection the Wrong Area

It sounds like there may have been some miscommunication with your treating physician. Sometimes wrinkles around the mouth are best treated by injecting the lip line at the vermillion border.

Lines and wrinkles around the mouth area are challenging and, like Dr. Chen stated, combination treatments often are the best option.  The mouth muscle is quite strong and works in a purse string fashion - pulls in and downward.  Some practitioners will inject the vermillion border (where the white meets the pink of the liips) to smooth out small, vertical lines around the mouth.  Some lines extend too far from this border for this technique to be of any value.  We... more

Wrinkles around the mouth can be treated with any or a combination of fillers (e.g. Restylane fine lines or a collagen-based filler such as cosmoderm/cosmoplast), deep chemical peels and Botox. I would return to the individual who performed your injections and voice your concerns. Juvederm is generally too thick for injection of wrinkles around the mouth. Good luck.