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You will need to be evaluated in person for a specific answer but usually this type of bump can be removed with a short office procedure. This is likely scar tissue but could be a post-traumatic cyst. A consultation should answer all of those questions for you. The lips heal very nicely after surgical procedures and generally the contour and discoloration would be greatly improved.Stephen Weber MD, FACSDenver Facial Plastic Surgeon
You would need to be examined to determine the best course of action to treat the bump on your lip after injury, but it is possible that it could be surgically improved. This would be a fairly minor procedure that could be done in the office under local anesthesia.
After trauma, the bump maybe cause by either excesses scar tissue or a mucocele. A mucocele is a cyst caused by entrapment of a mucous gland that isn't properly draining. This could've been caused by the trauma that you received to the lip. The scar tissue or the mucocele could be fairly easily excised. See a facial plastic surgeon for further evaluation. It probably isn't too difficult to take of.
To have a bump after injury to the lips is very common, it can be surgically correctedSamir Shureih MD. FACSsshureih@msn.com
If its not causing you a problem I would leave it alone. The only way to remove injectable silicone is to surgically excise it and this may result in a lip deformity.
Many patients take pain medication for only one day after the procedure and some do not even need that. Patients that take pain medication typically stick to Tylenol or Advil.
Scalpel sSculpting, which involves no deep cutting or stitches has, in my experience, proven quite successful for achieving gratifying aesthetic results while leaving little, or often barely perceptible, scars even on the lips.The technique, which I have been using for thirty years, involves...
