Your lips are as unique as your fingertips, and your face is as much a reflection of its specific shape and type as anything else regarding how people see you. Your lips can be classified by shape, size, width, and pattern, and each of those criteria affects how different cultures see beauty in this single part of your face.
Whether you want to try a different look with your lips or have a cosmetic problem that needs addressing, lip augmentation is a very common treatment, and lip fillers and lip lifts are two types used to enhance them. Which method is best for your needs, and how does each method affect how your lips look? Let’s find out.
Residents of the Arlington, Virginia, area looking to have work done on their lips or other parts of their face can find experienced help with Drs. Talal Munasifi, James Economides, and their team at Advanced Plastic Surgery Center.
This is the term for dermal fillers, a form of cosmetic injectable used to add volume to areas of the face for various reasons, including reshaping lips. Hyaluronic acid is the most common substance used to do this, a chemical found naturally in many places in the body, such as the eyes, skin, and joints.
This treatment affects the space between your nose and mouth by raising the upper lip and shortening the space of the philtrum (the indented middle area between the bottom of the nose and the top of the lip). There are different ways to perform the procedure, but each requires some variation of an incision either at the lip or lower nose. Once finished, it’s permanent.
Both techniques work to give you fuller-looking lips, but to different effects and lasting for radically different periods:
Fillers are an outpatient procedure that can take as little as a half hour and help smooth wrinkles, restore lip size, correct asymmetrical lips, and lift the corners of the mouth. They can last 18 months, are reversible, and have a low risk of complications.
This process is done on the same day and takes under an hour. It can help eliminate aging lines, make your upper lip look more voluminous, reverse downturned lip corners, and cover exposed upper teeth. It will take a few days to heal completely, but it helps you look younger, and the results last for life.
The choice between the two is down to preference and the specific changes you want to make to your lips. To find out more about the results these treatments can give you, make an appointment with Drs. Munasifi, Economides, and the team at Advanced Plastic Surgery Center today.
