Finally Got my Upper Lip Lift

I had been very interested in the bullhorn lip lift procedure for several years. My nature lip was very flat and thin. I also had some asymmetry that bother me and I didn't show a lot of top teeth when I smiled. I had been getting filler to try and reshape my cupids bow but found that after years of doing this that my filler not only had migrated above my lip giving me the dreaded duck lip but my lip become heavy and I ended up showing less top teeth than I did prior to filler.

After doing a lot of research and examining before and after I found Dr Lieberman. I could tell from his before-and -after's that his patients had a big improvement which is what I was looking for. Once I meet him in person I knew I wanted him to do my surgery. I liked that he was willing to make a true improvement and was not super modest about the amount of skin he was willing to remove between the nose and lip. We removed 5.5 millimeter of skin in the center and he adjusted the other two sides to address my asymmetry.

My surgery was in office with only numbing shots and No narcotics. I was perfectly comfortable with no pain or discomfort. On the drive home about 30 minutes after I let the office, my top teeth started to hurt and my lip started to ache and I kinda got a head ache. I took a 500 mg extra strength Tylenol and felt better. once I got home If I needed to get up or move it would ache but was definitely tolerable. I ended up taking one Tylenol every 6 hours

Day 2 I was pretty swollen but in less pain. I only took Tylenol every 8 hours. My talking was compromised tho because I was trying not to tug on my stitches and I could only really eat yogurt and smoothies. Also I had trouble brushing my teeth and mostly brush the bottom teeth.

By day 3 I no longer needed any Tylenol,

By day 5 my talking was a lot better and I could brush my teeth mostly normal. most of the heavy swelling had gone down. also I got my stitched out this day too.

Today is day 6 and I am pretty Happy with my progress so far. I am still swollen but my lips look pretty sematic which I am happy about and the shape looks nice. I am still avoiding smiling so I will updated with a smiling photo once I feel comfortable putting pressure on that area.

Here are my pre and post op photos. My bruising is gone and others than there surgical tap under my nose I don’t think anyone would notice I just had had surgery a few days ago. I will updated more in a week or so as the healing progresses. So happy to finally have had the surgery and get to be one of the people who get to review this procedure!!