Is It Possible to Make my Mouth Wider? (photo)

I would like to have my mouth appear wider. My lips are quite thin and they often look odd paired with my large cheeks and nose. What kind of procedures would help with that look? Also, the corners of my lips are basically non-existent, would injections there make my cheeks puff out less or would I just need to get the lines filled?

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Mouth Widening by Commissurotomy

A mouth can be made wider by a procedure known as a commissurotomy. This is where skin is removed from beyond the exsting corners of the mouth and the vermilion/mucosa advanced outward to cover the area where the skin was removed. While it can effectively make the mouth wider, it does so at the price of some small scars around the corners. This trade-off has to be seriously considered in a purely cosmetic reason for mouth widening or commissure expansion.

Wider mouth

In my 40 years of practice I have only done one ( but a successful one) operation to extend the corners of mouth. In addition the corners were raised as would also benefit you.

Lip augmentation/ enhancement

Hello 'Idonteven', thanks for your question. There IS a way to widen your oral aperture through surgical incisions of your commissures and advancements of the mucosa, which we sometimes do for microstomia reconstruction cases, but I would not recommend it in your case. The width of your mouth actually nicely balances the aesthetics of your face and any attempts to widen it can detract from the feminine qualities and proportions to your face, leading to a masculinizing effect.... more

Is it possible to make mouth wider?

It is possible to make the lips fuller and it is possible to raise the corners of the lips, but it is not possible to make the mouth wider. Fillers or surgery can be used to help with fullness in the lips or raise the corners of the mouth.