Treatment of Hypertrophic Salivary Glands in Upper Lip

I read your concern and reviewed your photos which are poor quality: If the bump is a small elevation on your right upper lip, you might be able to have it removed. When performed properly, small elevations of the pink of your lip may be excised, and healing tends to be favorable in most....

While there are operations to make lips less full, there isn't a good cosmetic operation to reduce the length of the lips, without significant external scarring or distortion of the lip shape.  Sorry.

Thank you for your question and photos. Based on your photos, I would not recommend a lip reduction as they are an attractive part of your face. Best of Luck!

It is very difficult to answer this question without evaluating you in consultation or seeing any photographs.  That being said, smile expressions that appear as if one is crying may have to do with certain dynamic lines (wrinkles from movement of facial muscles) created by making certain...

While there are a number of things that can cause this lip problem, it is certainly treatable.  Accessory salivary gland tissue can be excised.  Vascular lesions, like hemangiomas, can be lasered.  An oral surgeon should certainly be able to advise you on this.

We do fillers all the time in people on warfarin and other blood thinners. This has become common since the same population that needs the fillers are the ones that are also most likely to be on blood thinners, and the number of people on blood thinners has risen. We generally use a blunt needle...