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Patient Info

Gender:
Female
Age:
32 years old
Surgeon:
Dr. Inessa Fishman

Description

This 32-year-old healthcare professional 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, but did not feel like she enjoyed the results as much as she had hoped.  She still wanted to make the upper look shorter and more in balance with her face.  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 and bespoke office; the patient had a great experience while awake and relaxed with by-mouth relaxing medications and injected numbing medicine.

Our patient is shown just 4 days after her upper lip lift surgery, and is already 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).

About Lip Lift Procedure

Age, genetics, and sometimes a previous history of lip filler treatments can lead to an overly long white lip (the skin between the bottom of the nose and the red lip border) and too-short height of the red lip (the part of the upper lip where we place lipstick). This creates disharmony within the facial balance, can make the face look too long or sad, and can lead to an unnatural or aged appearance of the face and mouth.  A lip lift procedure shortens the distance between the nose and upper lip and helps to contour greater volume within the upper lip; this is a powerful treatment to bring balance to the mouth and lower face.  Commonly performed in combination with a facelift and lip augmentation with fat grafting, a lip lift is an effective way for the carefully selected patient to put her best face forward.Learn More About Lip Lift