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How can mouth widening be done? Surgery, Botox, filler? (Photos)

gunner1066Dec 13, 2022
I’ve been thinking about mouth widening for a while. The width of my mouth corner from one corner to the other amounts to 5.5 cm. I wish it was wider by about 1 cm. How can it be done? Am I stuck with a plastic surgery or is it possible to change the width by means of Botox/filler?

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Dr. Connie Hiers, MD, FACS
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Answered on Dec 16, 2022
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