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Lip Augmentation - Dallas Plastic Surgery
Considering lip augmentation surgery?
Both men and women are seeking lip enhancement as a means to look younger, increase confidence, and positively
impact body image. There are nonsurgical and surgical solutions; be sure to consult with your Dallas facial
plastic surgeon to discuss and decide what approach is best for you.
Search Dallas plastic surgeons performing lip augmentation surgery.
Dallas plastic surgeons perform lip augmentation to create fuller, plumper lips and reduces fine wrinkles around
the mouth. Lips may be injected with collagen or with fat transferred from another site in the patient's body.
Both liquid collagen and fat are absorbed and repeat treatments are necessary to maintain results. Newer,
longer-lasting options include implantable materials like AlloDerm and SoftForm.
Lip Augmentation Surgery Techniques
A natural or synthetic biocompatible material, or the patient's own fat, is injected or implanted in the lips.
One injection is usually sufficient to produce the desired result, which may be temporary, depending on the
material used. Injections may need to be repeated periodically. Proper placement of the injected material is
important. AlloDerm, a natural collagen sheet made from donated skin, is inserted through tiny incisions inside
the corners of the mouth. Once the AlloDerm implant is in place, it eventually becomes integrated with the
natural tissues. Gore-Tex, SoftForm and soft ePTFE are other synthetic implant options.
More lip augmentation options include:
- Autologen - injectable dermal implant material made from the patient's own skin.
- Dermalogen - injectable Human Tissue Matrix (HTM) procured from donor tissue
- Fascia - injectable donor tissue made from the dense white connective tissue that supports body structure. Can also be done as a surgical implant.
- HylaForm - a crystal-clear injectable gel; the hyaluronic acid in Hylaform is similar to that naturally found in the body.
- Radiance - calcium hydroxylapatite
- Restylane - crystal-clear injectable gel; the hyaluronic acid in Restylane is very close to that naturally found in the body.
Benefits of Lip Augmentation In Dallas
- Immediate return to normal activities (one-day return if sedated) for nonsurgical procedures; depending on
the procedure and materials used, recovery period is within a week for surgical procedures.
- AlloDerm and Dermalogen do not require patients to provide donor tissue and are not rejected by the body,
because they are human tissue. Usually they have a pliable, natural feel.
- Gore-Tex implants are permanent, easily inserted and well tolerated by the body.
- Temporary procedures like collagen or fat injection can be appealing to patients who want to experiment
with a fuller-lipped look, but not necessarily commit to it.
Other Risks/Considerations When Regarding Lip Augmentation
- Allergic reactions can range from prolonged redness, swelling or itching, to firmness at the injection site.
Other possible complications include bleeding, lip asymmetry, and migration and extrusion of the implant. Normal
swelling and bruising lasts from three days to a week.
- Patients with a reaction to the pre-treatment collagen skin test; who have a serious allergy history; or are
allergic to lidocaine (a local anesthetic) should not consider lip augmentation. Treatment is sometimes postponed
for patients with active inflammatory skin conditions or with infections.
- Collagen injections have a short-lived effect (9-12 weeks); fat injections provide longer-lasting results,
but are sometimes unpredictable as to the degree of improvement, can have lumping or scarring effects, and must
be harvested from another part of the body.
- Soft-form is a foreign body and may become infected or be rejected. While many techniques exist for lip
augmentation, none are ideal.
Permanent Lip Augmentation In Dallas, TX
Permanent lip augmentation is also performed by many local Dallas plastic surgeons. Permanent lip augmentation
lifts and plumps thin lips, using materials that resist absorption, providing longer-term results than collagen.
Permanent lip augmentation is a growing field, as more people seek a long-lasting form of lip enhancement.
A permanent lip augmentation is usually performed under local anesthetic, in your Dallas cosmetic surgeon doctor's office. There are a number
of permanent lip augmentation options based upon the material used to increase lip fullness. Most of the materials
for permanent lip augmentation are synthetic, decreasing the likelihood of transmitted diseases or rejection,
problems often associated with permanent lip augmentation when the materials are taken from animals or other
humans. Among synthetic implants used for permanent lip augmentation, SoftForm, a type of Gore-tex, is probably
the best known. SoftForm implants designed for permanent lip augmentation are shaped like small tubes, allowing
tissue growth to help anchor the implants after permanent lip augmentation surgery. The SoftForm implants are
inserted through tiny incisions using a small needle. Synthetic permanent lip augmentation implants can become
infected or may be rejected by the body.
Adverse reactions to permanent lip augmentation using synthetic materials can be reversed by removing the implants.
More "natural" approaches to permanent lip augmentation include fat transplant, which produces permanent results
in nearly half of the patients. Doctors performing permanent lip augmentation surgery using fat transplant remove
the fat from the body of the patient receiving permanent lip augmentation and inject it into the lip area. Most
often the fat used for permanent lip augmentation is removed from the abdomen, although facial liposuction is
sometimes combined with this form of permanent lip augmentation, so that the fat removed from the face is re-used
to accentuate the lips.
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