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You need to be evaluated by an Oral Surgeon or Craniofacial Plastic Surgeon who specializes in orthognathic surgery. With special X-rays they can analyze what surgery would be best for you. I suspect they will recommend a maxillary shortening procedure (Lefort surgery) to correct this problem. I do NOT recommend injection of Botox or releasing the muscles of your upper lip that another surgeon indicated.
The gap between upper and lower lips are fairly large. Release of the muscles of the upper lip should help. You may also try Botox injection. Both of these will limit the movements of the upper lip but will reduce the gap.
It is tough to give you any help or answers without any photographs. sounds like you had extensive surgery for skin cancer.
I would stay away from the steroid injections and let these improve with time. the steroids may make the cold sores recur again
If your lip hangs over or is simply too big or as you are saying has a double configuration you might consider having a lip reduction performed. This is my specialty, and i perform a lip correction/reduction several times a week. 90% of my patients fly in for this procedure and can...
Excellent question. Lifting the lower lip to cover exposed lower teeth is a problem that we've not yet solved. I have transected lower lip depressor muscles and tried V to Y plasty and W plasty procedures with limited success. Vertical reduction genioplasty may theoretically help, but I've...
This is an interesting question and one I have never been asked before as a cleft lip surgeon. Most of the time I am trying to give my patients more philtral definition. Any surgery here could easily upset the delicate balance of the movements of the lip
I am specialized in reducing lips. I do many ethnic or non-ethnic lip reductions along with tons of corrective lips for bad previous procedures. Although I cannot guarantee that your upper lip will be less protrusive than your bottom lip, it may be a way to go for what you are...
