Flattened lip after 3 days of procedure - is this supposed to happen?

There are surgical and non-surgical approaches to lip augmentation. Non-surgical approaches include botox (slight lift, reducing gum show) and filler (volume restoration). Surgically, you can have two separate incisions under the nose (italian), one incision under the nose (bull horn), one...

Regarding operative notes- some surgeons dictate a new note after each surgery, and others use a template. Some surgeons include a very high level of detail in the notes and include surgical reasoning, whereas other surgeons simply list the steps performed during the procedure without additional...

Dear EvelynMany thanks for posting your question and photograph. An upper lip lift will primarily lift your lip in the central portion (more than at the sides). Therefore, it might be that the downward slope that you describe becomes more pronounced.One further thought, is that you are very...

In my opinion, muscle hemming is rarely required when performing a lip lift. Doctors love to develop nuance in surgical procedures to distinguish themselves, and sometimes these embellishments are confusing to the public. Muscle hemming can be useful when you want to roll the vermilion upward in...

An upper lip lift does three things: 1. Shortens the distance of the base of the nose to the upper lip Vermilion. 2. Allows your upper teeth to be seen, which is aesthetically beneficial in most cases. 3. Everts the upper lip Vermilion (rolls it outwards) to a very minor degree. I tell my...

Hello xsmnloThe Subnasal Bullhorn lift is a technical variant of the gull-wing lip lift. The sub-nasal lip lift or bull-horn lip lift involves the removal of either an ellipse or a curved-edge ellipse of tissue from under the nose. The skin then is raised, and sutured to l...