Can a lip lift be performed on African American patients? I am more concerned about scarring.

Thank you for your question. Yes, a lip lift procedure can be carried out on African American patients however it is worth discussing with your operating surgeon how wounds have healed in the past as this will indicate how the subnasal scar would look darker than a patient with a paler skin tone or less pigment.

Lip lifts are rare in African-American women but there is no reason to believe that the subnasal scar would be worse than in a woman with less skin pigment. The analogous scar would that of an open rhinoplasty scar on the columella.