After 2 Weeks of a Face Lift and Corners of Mouth Are Drooping Downward, Can It Be Fixed or is This Permanent?

   If you are still able to smile appropriately, the droopy corners can be altered with fillers.  Kenneth Hughes, MD Los Angeles, CA

A facelift does not correct drooping corners of the mouth. This is a multi-modal avenue of “Lifting, Filling, and Resurfacing”. All of these are done in conjunction with a facelift.

Great question.  The downward cant of the oral commissure is one of the most difficult things to address in facial aging.  It tends to be resilient to most facelift procedures alone.  Im a strong believer in using fat transfers or a filler, ie Juviderm, to improve this issue.  Fat transfers will likely require more than one treatment. Most patients should not think a facelift alone will improve this drooping of the corners of the mouth.  

It can be fixed only utilizing sutures by lifiting the sides of the mouth

 

mouth appearance after facelift  or lite lift surgery

the corners of the mouth should not have been affected by the surgery however

the corners of the mouth can be lifted by using botox in the depressor muscles and filler around the corner of the mouth