Lip Augmentation

Lip augmentation can achieve fuller, plumper lips using a variety of lip enhancement techniques. Many patients experience a gradual loss of fullness around the lips due to aging, genetics, sun exposure, or other environmental factors. As collagen production slows, the lips can lose definition and begin to thin out. Lip augmentation aims to volumize your lips using either dermal fillers or natural fat transfer techniques. Dermal fillers composed of hyaluronic acid can enhance lip shape to achieve smooth, symmetrical results, while fat grafting uses your body’s own fat cells to plump the lips for realistic definition. Your plastic surgeon can customize your lip enhancement procedure to best fit your procedure goals, achieving results that complement your individual facial profile.

Lip Augmentation At A Glance
Can plump the lips for a fuller-looking appearance
Replaces youthful-looking lip volume lost due to aging, environmental factors, or genetics
Dermal fillers can enhance lip definition for natural-looking results
Lip fat grafting uses your body’s natural fat to improve lip contours
Can shape the lips for symmetrical results
Achieves youthful-looking results with minimal downtime
Can enhance your facial profile

Your Lip Augmentation Procedure

Depending on the type of lip enhancement procedure being performed, your lip augmentation treatment may be completed in-office, at an outpatient surgical facility, or at a local hospital. When using dermal fillers to enhance the lips, a lip filler is carefully injected into the upper and lower lips to provide immediate volume. Fat transfer for the lips requires excess fat cells to be collected from a donor location via liposuction (usually your midsection or buttocks). Once these fat cells are extracted, they are inserted into the lips to add natural-looking volume.

Lip augmentation can be combined with additional facial surgery procedures, including blepharoplasty, facelift surgery, rhinoplasty, and chin augmentation, as well as non-surgical facial rejuvenation using dermal fillers.

Lip Augmentation Techniques

Dermal Fillers	Lip Fat Transfer
Uses hyaluronic acid-based fillers to add fullness	Utilizes your body’s natural fat to enhance the lips
Lip fillers are injected into the upper and lower lips	Excess fat cells are taken from a donor location and then injected into the upper and lower lips
Completely non-surgical treatment that can be completed in under 30 minutes	Minimally invasive procedure
No downtime required	Minimal downtime usually lasting 1-2 weeks
Can achieve temporary results lasting months	Can achieve long-lasting results

What To Expect After Undergoing Your Lip Augmentation Procedure

Your lip augmentation recovery will depend on the type of lip enhancement procedure performed. Patients opting for dermal fillers to plump the lips experience no healing time and can resume daily activities right away, while those undergoing lip fat grafting can expect slight bruising and swelling around the donor location and treatment site. Fat transfer patients require approximately 1-2 weeks of lip enhancement recovery. Your lip augmentation surgeon can explain detailed guidelines and timetables during your consultation.

Lip enhancement can replenish youthful-looking lip volume and enhance existing lip contours for a plumper appearance. Patients can begin to see results from lip fillers or lip fat transfer immediately following lip treatment.

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This website is meant to be informational in nature and should never be considered as a substitute for the opinion of a medical professional. The Persian American Society of Plastic Surgeons provides these services to help patients find a qualified plastic surgeon to help meet their particular goals. PASPS cannot guarantee patient satisfaction when undergoing treatment with one of our affiliated surgeons you decide to select.

Lip Augmentation To Volumize Lips