Local Anaesthetic Lip Lift

Local Anaesthetic Lip Lift

Many things happen as we age and Plastic surgeons have for years been inventing procedures to reverse the cosmetic effects and defining what exactly changes as we age. One of the less understood effects of aging is the precise changes that happen around the mouth and the smile, but also the way we speak and communicate.

One of the things patients often say to me is that they feel they look sad or miserable despite feeling happy. A drooping mouth or downward crescent of a long upper lip is an older and sadder look. A significant change with age is the lengthening and thinning of the upper lip with gradually more show of the lower teeth and less of the upper. The lip thins and turns downwards and inwards revealing less of the pink vermillion. The corners droop and they thin.

Some young patients will also benefit from a lip lift if their natural proportions are to have a long upper lip.

A lip lift reverses many of these changes. Upper lip lifts have become very popular since they shorten the upper lip exposing more of the upper teeth and less of the lower teeth, and often lift the corners of the mouth and can roll the lip out exposing more vermillion. Combined with conservative lip fillers the rejuvenated effect can be powerful. The procedure contributes a lot to transforming an older sadder mouth to a brighter happier one.

An upper lip lift can be performed under local anaesthetic as an out-patient. Recovery is quick and people are often back socialising within 10 days. All scars are hidden within natural creases around the nose and are usually very difficult to see or find.