Patient Info
- Gender:
- Female
- Age:
- 27
- Surgeon:
- Dr. Inessa Fishman
Description
This 27-year-old woman wanted a more shapely, fuller upper lip and a shorter distance between her nose and upper lip border. Facial plastic surgeon Dr. Inessa Fishman treated her with a surgical upper lip lift, also known as a bullhorn lip lift, performing the procedure in the office, with patient awake and relaxed with laughing gas. The patient is shown 8 months after treatment, with excellent healing progress and a beautiful, natural result.
The upper lip lift is a powerful facial balancing procedure for patients with a too-long or stretched upper lip. Some patients note their lip elongates with age or with excessive injectable dermal filler use. The upper lip lift procedure is commonly performed by itself, or in combination with other treatments, like blepharoplasty/ eyelid lifting or CO2 laser facial resurfacing. When lip lifting is the only procedure on the treatment plan, we commonly perform it in the comfort of our luxurious clinic, with the patient awake and relaxed with by-mouth relaxing medications, laughing gas, and injected numbing medicine. Recovery from a lip lift is usually 7-10 days of swelling and sometimes mild bruising.