Want to learn about a procedure that can give you the perfect strawberry mouth of Angelina Jolie or the full and spouty smile of Marline Monroe or the perfect crescent of the lips of Tom Cruise? If you happen to be one of those hundreds and thousands of patients who feel there is something very much wrong with their lips and want a suitable correction, you can consider a lip augmentation surgery.
What lip augmentation can do for you?
The definition of beauty changes with time; thinner but perfectly curved lips were in the height of the fashion when Ingrid Bergmans or Audrey Hepburns ruled the stage. Now is the age of fuller and plumper lips and a lip augmentation cosmetic surgery can help you get the lovely lips of your dream. The fine lines or wrinkles around the lips can also be treated with this cosmetic procedure.
How it is done?
Lip augmentation surgery aims at revising the shape of your lips; as such it has to correct the thinness or thickness of the lips. Depending on the expected results, the procedure may involve surgery or injection therapy.
In order to correct the over thickness of the lips, your doctor may recommend a surgical removal of excess tissue through the incisions made inside of the lips. Excess mucous membrane as well as deeper glandular and soft tissues are also removed to relief the lips from excessive thickness.
When on the other hand, you want a longer and fuller upper lip, a lip-lift surgery is used to bring that look. This involves making an incision at the base of the nose right above the line of upper lip. Layers of skin are removed from the areas beneath the nose. This removal results in elevation of the lip. The incision is closed with absorbable suture so that you no more find the scar after healing.
When injection is the option for enlargement of your lips, a natural or synthetic biocompatible material is injected into patient's lips. Most of the time it is patient's own fat tissues harvested from other parts of the body that is injected or implanted in the lips.
Sometimes, very small drops of medical grade liquid silicone are injected into the lips that eventually trigger off the production of collagen cycle. This collagen formation results into added fullness of the lips.
In most of the cases, the procedure is done on an outpatient basis under local anesthesia and it can take nearly two hours, depending on the complexity involved. However, the patients can return home the same day.
You will get permanent result from surgery, whereas the injection methods will give you only a temporary effect. However, if you are in a mood to experiment a bit with your appearance, but do not want a permanent change; you can try injection, which will bring your lips to the previous shape within two or three months.
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