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You are an excellent candidate for a lip lift. 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. Best Wishes,Gary Horndeski, M.D.
I'm not sure what it is that you don't like about your lower face either. I do however, think that a lip lift would look nice, giving you more "Pink Show" of your upper lip.
A lip lift can be done in a variety of different ways. In your case, I would excise more skin laterally and very little, if any, centrally. This will pull up the corners. Best Wishes, Gary Horndeski, M.D.
You are an excellent candidate for a chin implant. You can then consider a lip lift secondary, if needed. Best Wishes, Gary Horndeski, M.D.
The incision along the line of the upper lip is near what is called the white line of the upper lip. This is distorted and can look terrible. The lip lift I use makes the incision at the nose-lip junction and inside the nostril area then transversely at the columella of the upper lip. The...
Unfortunately, you have not provided photographs or told us the length. It is possible to do a lip lift to excise more laterally than centrally to pull up the corners. Best Wishes, Gary Horndeski, M.D.
If you are thinking about a rhinoplasty and lip lift, I would first do the rhinoplasty have that settle. After that, if the lips are still asymmetric, it a conservative lip lift between four and 6 mm will give you more symmetry and give you more harmony of your nose lip junction.
The problem you have is that the vermilion border (the edge between the red and skin color of the lip) is blunted. That can happen with a lip lift of this type. The best option will be to do something to improve that area and give it more definition.
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