Last year, I had a Lip Lift. Besides removing skin, the doctor removed a strip of my orbicularis oculi (OO) muscle, then sewed the muscle to the bone behind my nose. Now, my upper lip hangs lower than it did before my surgery, and it barely moves and is stiff. I am wondering, if by accident, the doctor cut my depressor septi muscle when he removed a strip of the OO muscle. I can't lift the center of my lip from one philtrum column to the other. The lip is like dead weight and is completely numb. I am very depressed over this. Do you think that I can be helped?
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Good day! For your guidance, the subnasal bullhorn lift is a technical variant of the gull-wing lip lift. This procedure involves the removal of either an ellipse or a curved-edge ellipse of tissue from under the nose. The skin then is raised, and sutured to lift the lip and expose more of the u...
It is not uncommon to see asymmetry of the face including the corners of the mouth, cheek folds and facial lines. Without a photograph we will have to assume a few things. First of all the surgeon would want to access your smile and facial expression. He or she would want to know about the motor...
Dear TobyRyan,Thanks for asking this question. There is truly one type of lip lift and what you may be reading is marketing terms. A bullhorn lip lift makes an incision underneath the base of the nose as your described. There is an older lip lift where the incision is made on the vermilion...
