Patient Info
- Gender:
- Female
- Age:
- 65 years old
- Surgeon:
- Dr. Inessa Fishman
Description
This 65-year-old woman wanted to rejuvenate and balance the appearance and balance of her lips and face. She had had dermal fillers to add volume to her lips in the past, and liked the look of added volume, but still wanted to make the upper look shorter and more in balance with her face. She had researched surgical lip lifting, and came to our practice to seek this treatment. Our Facial Plastic Surgeon Dr. Inessa Fishman treated her with an upper lip lift (also called a bullhorn lip lift) in the comfort of our welcoming office; the patient had a comfortable experience while awake and relaxed with by-mouth relaxing medications and injected numbing medicine.
Our patient is shown just 2.5 months after her upper lip lift surgery, and is very pleased with her natural and rejuvenating result. She has a noticeable improvement in her lip and facial balance, and shows excellent early healing. Her results will continue to improve as swelling resolves and her tissues heal fully over the next 6 months.
Lip lift surgery is an excellent treatment for help improve facial balance and shorten an upper lip which commonly becomes longer and more heavy with age. Lip lift surgery by itself is most commonly an office-based surgical procedure in our practice; we also commonly combine with out facial rejuvenation treatments such as a facelift and blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery).