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I appreciate your concern and while physical exam is optimal, your photos demonstrate that you would most likely benefit from lip reduction surgery. The procedure is done in the office, under local anesthesia, and it takes about one hour. Recovery is usually one week, as postop, the lips are quite swollen. Seek out a board certified plastic surgeon with lots of experience with lip surgery, good luck!
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...
You are correct in that the combination of lip reduction and lower lip vermilion advanccement has the best chance to reveal some tooth show without losing vermilion exposure which is interpreted as lip volume.