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What is the Best Way to Dissolve Lumps Without Reducing my Achieved Lip Volume?

asked 7 months ago by lubna
Latest answer by Charles Crutchfield, MD
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Tags: dissolve, lumps

i have taken lips injections 2 times,after 1st time i felt several lumps on my lips which is very uneven and 2nd time i am feeling same lumps,what is the best way to dissolve it without reducing my achieved lip volume?

3 answers to What is the Best Way to Dissolve Lumps Without Reducing my Achieved Lip Volume?

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Treating bumps after lip injections

The best way to prevent lumps in the lips is to select a physician with experience in treating the lips so it does not happen. I use a special technique that makes Restylane and Juvederm very smooth and essentially bump free after injections. If it has already happened, a small amount of enzyme can be injected to dissolve the bump, it can be massaged down or even a small nick can be made it the skin and have the bump expressed out. Look for the "Expert... more
Charles Crutchfield, MD

Minneapolis Dermatologic Surgeon
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Dissolving lumps on lips after injections

Hopefully a hyaluronic acid filler such as Juvederm or Restylane was used for your lip injections. If so, there are several possible treatment options. Your physician can make a puncture wound into the lump with a small needle and sometimes the material can simply be expressed. If not, small amounts of hyaluronidase can be injected to attempt to remove some of the filler without removing all of it. Going slowly is the key and even then it might all wind up being removed. But then you can... more
Mitchell Schwartz, MD

South Burlington Dermatologic Surgeon
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Lip augmentation

If the filler is Hyaluronic acis then it can be disolved, any other filler can not be disolved and may need surgery. If it is Hyaluronic acid the injection of halurinidase will disolve the lmps and the rest of the the hyluronic acis and you have to start from the begining.
Samir Shureih, MD

Baltimore Plastic Surgeon

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