Do you ever wonder how to get normal, rejuvenated lips without the fake ‘duck’ pout? To find the answer, you need to understand the ageing process and how medical procedures provide the best outcome.
The main early ageing signs in the lips are a consequence of skin and bone ageing, which leads to bone retraction and volume loss, when the lip falls down with an inward rotation giving less of a visible red lip.
Perioral region ageing main characteristics:
- Upper and lower lip lines or barcode lines
- Marionette lines (wrinkles at the corner of your mouth)
- Long white lip (from nose to red lip)
- Inverted/low volume in the upper red lip
To consider the options available to reverse signs of ageing, one needs to understand that the lip is not just the red part. The white lip goes up to the nostrils and down to the chin. Perioral lines are the result of thinning of the dermis and repetitive muscular contraction following speaking, smoking and expressing emotions. Marionette lines are caused by the down movement of facial soft tissues over the tight muscles and tissues of the white lower lip.
Normally, red lip augmentation and wrinkle filling with hyaluronic acid are offered by physicians. This is not correcting the lip ptosis nor correcting the skin irregularities, it’s simply filling them up! As a result, we see those awful rounded ‘duck’ lips, causing a distortion instead of a correction.
So what should be done?
- Lip shortening because it has become elongated due to lack of support from the bone
- Lip skin resurfacing to efface the wrinkles (laser or peeling)
- Skin regenerative treatment with stem cells prolongs the rejuvenation effect to postpone ageing
- Soft lip volumising normally only after steps one and/or two
The procedure – surgery based using local anaesthesia or with no anaesthesia
- Lip lift
- Lip resurfacing
- Regenerative medicine
- Lip rejuvenation (prevention of ageing)
Lip procedures are quite simple and fast to perform, and recovery is between two and ten days. A proper evaluation and explanation from the doctor is fundamental to a natural, good-looking, rejuvenated lip. Future ageing also needs to be addressed during the consultation.
Tiago Baptista-Fernandes is a specialist in plastic surgery.
tiago.baptistafernandes@upclinic.pt
+351 213 150 201
+351 925 227 377
