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Upper lip lift, medialized corner lip lift, lower lip lift - Beverly Hills, CA

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I had an upper lip lift, corner lip lift and fat...

anon101010August 11, 2014
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I had an upper lip lift, corner lip lift and fat transfer by Dr Randal Haworth. I have been researching this procedure for over a year.

I am very happy with the results. I was worried I would not look myself, but found my friends cannot tell I had anything done... but do say I look really good recently. That was my goal, to find a plastic surgeon who could help me with the ageing process, but not look like a different person.

I did have a lot of swelling the first week especially and some bruising from the fat transfer. After around 5 weeks I started to feel more normal.

I picked Dr Haworth due to his reputation, and his web-site had the best lip work I have ever seen. When I met Dr Haworth he spent a lot of time with me, and continues to monitor my recovery with post op appointments. He also did a C)-2 laser on the scar area the day of the surgery to help with healing. Since the surgery I have had several appointments and will have another laser treatment if needed, that he includes free of charge for post op patients.

In most of my pictures I have very little or no make up. Some pictures I have clear scar cream. With make up my scar is not visible. Without makeup my scar is slightly visible at 7 weeks post surgery. I have a few pictures the day after surgery on another phone that I will try to upload. There I have the most swelling. Some of my pictures are not as clear as others, and that is due to my phone.

I am 44 years old and had a significant spinal injury which resulted in surgery and spending a lot of my day in bed due to pain issues. I do feel being in chronic pain did affect my appearance and aged me. I also gained weight from a nerve pain medication. Once I lost the weight my face looked even more aged from the weight loss. I wanted to do this surgery as a gift to myself and freshen my looks as I recover from my third and hopefully last spinal surgery.. I noticed my lips became thinner as I aged, and the space between my upper lip and nose became longer. My lip corners also turned down. Having the upper and lower lip lift, corner lip lift, and fat transfer has helped my appearance. I feel very fortunate to have met Dr Haworth who has seemed to literally taken years off of my face.

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Randal Haworth, MD, FACS

Randal Haworth, MD, FACS

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NB
August 11, 2014
This is where the obvious is obvious... and where everything and anything starts going south.
anon101010
August 11, 2014
I am relived to say my lips have moved farther north due to this procedure and are much fuller. I do understand that after 40 things do start going south.
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Angie_M
August 12, 2014
Your results are spectacular! Seriously it makes your whole lower faces look tons younger. Thanks so much for sharing.

How long was it after your lip lift until you could go out in public?
anon101010
August 12, 2014
Thank you. The results turned out better than I imagined. I am so thankful I found this surgeon. He took years off my face that is for sure. I went out in public after two weeks. I hid from my friends for 4 weeks, because I did not want them to know I had anything done. While they cannot tell I had plastic surgery, they are asking me how do I look so good. I think my swelling took a bit longer due to fat injections. I am glad I did the fat injections with the lip lift. He injected my face and lips. This is my seventh week post op and today I had a laser treatment on my scar, even though it is healing really well the treatment has helped smooth it out. With makeup the scar is not noticeable and without makeup it is very slight.
mcat1045
August 12, 2014
you look absolutely amazing. Congratulations on a gorgeous result. This is very encouraging to all of us in our 40s!
anon101010
August 12, 2014
Thank you. I have seen your pictures and you look great as well.
mcat1045
August 13, 2014
I would like to get a lip lift. My philtrum is really long and getting longer every year. I just have to find 6 weeks when I can hide from my friends/family/work...:) Just a few questions if you wouldn't mind: Do you find your mouth moves naturally when you smile, talk, chew at 7 weeks? Just wondering if you notice a difference in that department. How many mm did he remove? If you have the images, I would love to see a before image of the base of the nose so I can see how much distance was removed. Thank you so much for sharing with us. Very much appreciated.
anon101010
August 14, 2014
Hi mcat, I replied above and posted a few more pictures. My philtrum was really long as well. He removed 4.5 mm. I do not think it would look right if he would have removed more because the middle of the lip would be pulled up high. I have seen a picture of a woman who had too much taken off from her plastic surgeon and it does not look good. My mouth moves completely normal now, except when I try to move the top and bottom lips together after putting on lipstick, (to rub in in). It feels and looks different. This is not a big deal, just something I noticed. I still have swelling. My smile and speech is normal. I have spoken with another patient and was told it can take 3 months for the mouth to move completely normal.
Artesslanyc
August 12, 2014
Did Dr. Haworth hem your muscle? Did you ask for a subtle result? You look so much more normal at 2 weeks than other Haworth patients I have seen that had a lot of swelling! I am in awe. Looks great.
anon101010
August 12, 2014
Dr Haworth did hem my muscle with a upper lip lift and also lower v-y lip lift which was done on the inside of my mouth. I showed him pictures of lips I liked. I told him I did not want Beverly hills lips. I viewed other patients pictures with him and he told me what was a reasonable expectation. I did not see any patients photos that looked overdone, so I was not worried about that. I felt like I had a lot of swelling the first few weeks, but part of it was...I was not used to having a upper lip. It took me time to get used to that.
anon101010
August 13, 2014
I just posted a picture day after surgery, and I think I did have similar swelling to other patients, if not more due to fat injections. Swelling goes away, although it may look scary right after surgery I wanted to post so you would see a realistic view. I would have posted this sooner, but it was on my daughters phone, which appears to sometimes be surgically connected to her at all times.
kebow
August 13, 2014
Hi , just like to say your lips look amazing. I am looking for the right surgeon to do my lip lift in the U.K. or Poland unfortunately Los Angeles is to far away. Can you tell me what the distance between your nose and lip was before the surgery and what is the distance now? Also do you know how much skin he took away. Can you also tell me what he does to turn up the corners of your mouth, this gives your lips the perfect look. I thank you so much.
anon101010
August 13, 2014
Thank you. I did not measure the distance before, but will ask my surgeon next time I see him. In my opinion my distance was longer than most people. He took 4.5 mm of skin. Dr Haworth did a surgery called corner lip lift to turn the corners up. My incisions were near the corners of my lips and the scar is barley visible now.
anon101010
August 13, 2014
I just posted a photo above that shows the day after my surgery. You can see blue stiches in the corners by my mouth. Dr Haworth pulls the corner up and stiches them. I do not know exactly how he does it but he has information about the procedure on his web-site under corner lip lift. I tried to take a picture to show the scar, but it is so light now it does not show up in photos. As you can see from my before photos my corners were pulling downward. If I only had the upper lip lift without the corners, I think it would have still been an improvement, but would not have looked as good. The corner lip lift surgery is minor compared to the other lip surgery and the healing was fast for me. It was scary to see the stiches, and I was worried about the scar, but in my case it healed well.
kebow
August 14, 2014
Hi, thank you so much for your reply. I am so grateful that you will ask Dr Haworth this question, this will make me feel so much more confident if I know exactly what distance you had before surgery for him to take away 4.5mm. This will give me more idea of the amount of skin I should be having removed to give me the result I want before I go ahead and choose my surgeon. I look forward to your reply. Thanks again.
anon101010
August 14, 2014
Hi kebow. I would ask the surgeon that you decide on what he recommends for your lips. From what I have read everyone's anatomy is different, and this type of surgery should not be done so much by the patient picking amount of skin but by the person's anatomy. Taking too much skin can result in that rabbit look where the upper lip is pulled up high in the middle. I see Dr Haworth in a month and will ask what my measurements were before for you. I do think my upper lip was longer than most before my surgery.Good luck to you.
kebow
August 15, 2014
Hi anon, That would be great, thanks fot that. yes I understand what you are saying and I would be devastated if he took to much skin away, I am trying to go off what Dr. Haworth said on YouTube (The ideal length between nose to cupid bow is 11mm no matter what hight you may be) but please do not quote me on that I really must check again. I have a gap of 21mm and would have thought 10mm of skin should be removed to achieve 11mm gap, but I could be totally wrong.
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day after surgery picture

anon101010August 13, 2014
This is the photo I took n my daughters camera right after surgery. You can see I did have swelling and I think more than normal lip lift swelling because I also had fat injections to lips and face. This causes additional swelling and some bruising. As you can see from two weeks post op the swelling is temporary. During the first week is when I had some difficulties with eating but that was also temporary, and lasted no more than a few weeks. Here you can also see where he did the incisions for the corner lip lift.

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lower v-y lip lift

anon101010August 13, 2014
This is a picture of incision of lower lip lift from today, 7 weeks post op. The incision is inside of my mouth, and has almost disappeared completely.

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oOjolaOo
August 16, 2014
What can I say??? Just one big f****g WOW !!!!! felt in love with this surgeon and his job results!!!!
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oOjolaOo
August 16, 2014
You look beautiful!!!
anon101010
August 16, 2014
Thank you o0jola0o. Thank you for posting your pictures and experience. Your lips also look beautiful. Dr Haworth did a great job and I am thankful.
asms2002
August 17, 2014
I also had a lip lift and corner lip lift with dr haworth. This is the 4th day. The swelling on the lips isn't as bad as how big my nose is. How long did it take your nose swelling to subside.
anon101010
August 17, 2014
I had very little swelling on my nose area. Most of my swelling was on my lips and area above my upper lip. Most swelling goes away the first two weeks. You will see every week the swelling goes down. Are you putting ice packs? Icing and sleeping with your head propped up helps. Icing is very important. I am getting close to 8 weeks post op and I was told my swelling will continue until 3 months post op. Just know you will not look anything like you do now as swelling will go way down. I got very worried, even at two weeks post op about swelling, but it resolves. Did you have any nose surgery with the lip lift? When you write how big your nose is...do you mean the nostril area, as that is swelling? Again you are VERY early with surgery as I have one day post op picture above you can see I looked nothing like that a few weeks later.
anon101010
August 17, 2014
I just looked at my one day post op and yes I had some swelling in the nose area, but I guess did not notice it due to I was so concerned with my lips. It went down within a few weeks,
anon101010
August 17, 2014
Things you may experience during this time is difficulty eating, and drinking, saying certain words feels different, numbness and tightness. This is temporary. Try to relax and do not stress. You will be fine.
kebow
August 17, 2014
Hi Anon, Can you tell me how much it cost for the upper and lower and corner lip lift with fat transfer. Many thanks. kebow
anon101010
August 17, 2014
Hi kebow, I just sent you a private message.
Harmonious1
November 11, 2015

Your lips are amazingly beautiful. Would you tell me the cost of the upper lip lift and the side lift please. **********@gmail.com

rich rich
December 14, 2016
Never heard of a lower lip lift? However your lips look gorgeous
anon101010
December 15, 2016
Thanks!The incision was inside of my mouth and the easiest to recover from. I deleted picture of incision by accident.
rich rich
December 16, 2016
I need the opposite. Too much permanent filler - aquamid - in the lower lip. Has gone beyond the red border a bit especially on each side. Looks ugly. Hoping to get a partial lip reduction to each side only but no one wants to touch it because of the filler!
Your lips are so shaply and amazing. What made you go with lip lift rather than fillers?
anon101010
December 28, 2016
Thank you!I tried fillers and they were painful, expensive and never looked right in my upper lip because it was SO thin. Also, I had a long space in between my upper lip and nose and that was what I wanted reduced more so than my lips made bigger.

There are doctors who have removed permanent fillers. Did you try Beverly Hills area?
rich rich
December 30, 2016
There is a Dr Raffy in Santa Monica. Good reviews. I'm from Australia. Coming to LA for the first time next March for. Couple of days. Haven't had any response from his office. There is no stand alone email address that I can find. Contact through the web page. Three times now! He has removed aquamid which is what I have. IDE be happy with either removal or reduction. There is also a Dr Sam Lam in Dallas. Prefer LA. Will look into the Beverley Hills ones. Just wish they would get back to me!!!
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