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Lip Enhancement
San Francisco - Oakland - Santa Rosa - Marin
Lip enhancement has become a very popular procedure over the past few years. As we age, we loose volume in our lips. Generous full lips give the face a more youthful appearance. Lip enhancement can be the finishing touch to a complete facelift, or just to enhance lip volume.
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Lip enhancement can be temporary or more permanent. The techniques used for lip enhancement are collagen injections, your own skin, fat injections or Alloderm.
Lip Enhancement Techniques
Collagen
Collagen injections are a temporary technique used to enhance the lips. The advantage is that there is a minimal recovery period. If you don’t like the effect given by collagen, the enhancement resolves completely in six months. Before you have collagen injected, you must first have a sensitivity test four weeks prior to your treatment.
Dermal Fat Graft
A piece of skin is taken from another place in your body and grafted into one or both lips. The advantages of using your own skin are that it will not be rejected and a custom piece can be accurately tailored. The disadvantage is a scar is created at the donor site, unless the skin is taken from a previous scar.
Fat Injections
Your own fat can be injected into your lips. However, it usually takes about two to three treatments. Because of the time involved and the cost, fat injections are not a preferable technique for lip enhancement.
Alloderm
What is Alloderm? It is normal human tissue donated to tissue banks the same way that other transplantable organs are. It is then put through a special process to enhance its safety, while retaining all the components your body needs to make it your own tissue. The Alloderm can be rolled into a small cigar-shaped tube that is surgically threaded along your lip line. Since Alloderm is a natural material, it’s not apt to be rejected by your body.