Lip Lift - Candidate or do I need a different procedure? (photos)

A lip lift does 4 things: shortens the distance between your nose and upper lip, increases the mucosa of the upper lip, increases the incisor show and pulls up the corners. You may be a candidate. I would need a photo with your mouth relaxed.

Best Wishes,

Gary Horndeski, M.D.

Hi there, A lip lift primarily reduces the space between the base of the nose and the upper lip (also called the "cutaneous upper lip") and improves tooth show with soft opening of the mouth. Depending on how the procedure is done, it can also - but does not necessarily - improve the eversion/height of the upper lip (also called the "mucosal upper lip"). If your issue is tooth show with smiling, this will likely not be improved with a lip lift as a lip lift does little to impact this. But to assess candidacy for a lip lift requires at least a photo from the front at rest and with soft mouth opening. Hope this helps! Best, Dr. Cabin

Hi, Bobavaspaniel! Thank you for your question and photos.
Regarding your photos, your upper lip structure shows an inversion while smiling. Your oral muscle (Orbicularis Oris) also adds negatively on this inversion, necessitating the side muscles (like buccal muscle and rhisorius) to work more to show your upper teeth. A lip-lift procedure with a skin excision on the nose-lip junction and a SMAS-tightening will help with neutralizing your lip inversion and will let your upper teeth to be seen better in a natural way.