Bathsheba

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• Posted to Can't Smile After Mid Face Lift + V Y Plasty on 15 Feb 2011

  I had a lower face lift and mid-face/cheek lift. I'd been seeking only a jaw and neck lift but ended up with the lower-face, cheek, and a partial endoscopic brow lift.
  
  My surgery was four-and-a-half months ago and my upper lip still does not work right.
  
  First, it looks different and changed my smile (I liked my smile before and there was no discussion of any changes to my mouth). When I smile, it looks tights and the skin just under and to the sides of my nostrils pull tights, creating a little bulge where it does. I really dislike that.
  
  Second, my lip looks like it was pulled up and in just a little, so when my mouth is closed, my lower lip sticks out a tiny bit more than the upper lips does.
  
  Third, there is scar tissue inside my mouth where the surgeon went into my cheeks through my mouth and the scar tissue feels like I have wads of cotton stuck under my upper lip, all of the time.
  
  Fourth, my upper lips always feels odd, numb, stiff, and like it has cotton under it so I can't eat normally, especially with a spoon, or drink from a glass or mug with a thick rim, and I can't always pronounce consonants correctly; others it takes extra efforts.
  
  I am going back for a chin fix and hopefully to fix a bulge below one ear, but my upper lips is what has bothered me the most, even depressing me some. I was not prepared for it since there was no mention of any possibility of changes to my mouth.