Excessively voluminous lips are not always an advantage. They may disturb the harmony of the face, indicate an injury or unsuccessful operation. However, it is not always possible to disguise this feature with cosmetics or get rid of it using non-invasive methods.
Reduction cheiloplasty is an operation to reduce the size of the upper and lower lips (often after unsuccessfully enlarging them in the past), which can be performed in conjunction with other types of facial plastic surgery. An important feature is the rapid healing of tissue in this area, which shortens the recovery period and greatly facilitates it.
Indications:
- excessively voluminous lips;
- consequences of injuries;
- unsuccessful lip augmentation surgery in the past;
- lip asymmetry;
- patient dissatisfaction with appearance.
Contraindications:
- diabetes;
- oncology;
- cardiovascular diseases;
- infections and inflammatory processes in the body;
- blood clotting disorder;
- herpes;
- pregnancy and lactation;
- epilepsy;
- asthma;
- ulcers in the lip area.
Get your lip shape corrected in Moscow
Cheiloplasty is a surgical intervention to change the overall contour, natural shape and volume of the lips.
This operation is minimally traumatic, with a short recovery period and a complete absence of complications. Cheiloplasty is performed not only to achieve a more aesthetic appearance when the patient wishes to eliminate signs of aging, but also to correct congenital anomalies and defects.
This type of plastic surgery is considered reconstructive. With its help, you can eliminate congenital problems: cleft palate, cleft lip, various types of cysts and fibroids.
Rehabilitation after cheiloplasty
The duration of the recovery period depends on the extent of the surgical intervention. During the first 7-14 days after surgery, pain and swelling may persist. Bruising and local redness are possible. The doctor will prescribe treatment, which includes lip treatment, painkillers and antibiotic therapy to prevent infectious complications.
After discharge, you regularly visit the clinic for dressing changes and postoperative examinations.
The sutures are removed after 7-10 weeks, but the final result after cheiloplasty is formed within a month.
In the practice of the EMC Aesthetic Clinic, cheiloplasty is often combined with other facial surgeries, since harmony is important in appearance.
If a facelift, anti-aging or aesthetic rhinoplasty, as well as cheiloplasty are performed at the same time, it is necessary to approach the correction wisely in order to create harmonious proportions. Often these procedures are supplemented with chin plastic surgery, which also involves a lot of nuances. To visualize the future result of plastic surgery, Vectra 3D technology is used.
Indications for surgery
The lip lifting procedure is aimed at solving various cosmetic problems:
- congenital or acquired asymmetry;
- age-related drooping corners;
- wrinkles above the lips;
- thin lips.
Nowadays, many women strive to have large, plump lips, so patients come to the clinic without serious problems, simply to give their lips a more perfect shape and volume.
Reduction plastic surgery, on the contrary, comes to the aid of those who do not want to have plump lips. During the reduction process, the specialist removes excess tissue and creates a new shape. The same technology is used to get rid of the consequences of medical errors.
With the help of cheiloplasty, birth defects in children of the first year of life are eliminated. Restoring the previous shape and size of the lips is also required after injuries that have changed the patient’s face.
Cheiloplasty and its purpose
Cheiloplasty is a plastic surgery during which the volume and shape of the lips are corrected by injection or using implants. Most often it is used to increase the thickness and shape of the lips. But such a procedure can be carried out not only for aesthetic purposes: it often becomes a necessary measure. Such cases include:
- Lip asymmetry,
- Presence of birth defects
- Aging and thinning of the skin around the mouth, the appearance of wrinkles,
- The presence of scars in the corners of the mouth,
- Benign formations in the mouth area,
- Unsuccessful plastic surgery.
Since each patient’s reasons for undergoing plastic surgery are completely individual, modern cheiloplasty offers several techniques for correcting the shape of the lips, including non-surgical methods and surgical methods.
Types of plastic surgery performed
There are several types of reduction cheiloplasty:
- Plastic surgery of the lower lip. Recommended for very long lower lips that protrude too far forward, or when their volume is small compared to the upper lip.
- Contour cheiloplasty. A procedure for non-surgical plastic surgery of the natural shape of the lips with the introduction of injections with special fillers under the skin. No drug rejection or allergic reactions are usually observed. The effect of the procedure lasts for about a year, after which repeated correction is necessary.
- “Bulhorn” is a change in the shape of the upper lip. This reduces the gap between the upper lip and the nose and eliminates wrinkles.
VY plastic - a specialist makes internal cuts, which, after stitching, add volume.
“Paris” technology - with the help of vertical and horizontal cuts, the upper lip takes the shape of a heart.
“Corner lift” - recommended for aging lips with drooping tips. By cutting and tightening the muscles, the corners of the lips are lifted and age wrinkles disappear.
Cheiloplasty
Cheiloplasty (lip surgery) is a plastic surgery aimed at improving the shape of the lips, correcting congenital and acquired lip deformities and age-related changes in the lip area.
Indications for cheiloplasty (lip surgery) are:
- Increasing the distance between the base of the nose and the red border of the upper lip.
- Insufficient lip height.
- Lip asymmetry.
- Congenital and post-traumatic deformation, consequences of cancer.
Cheiloplasty (lip surgery) involves changing the shape of the lips using local lip tissue.
Sometimes cheiloplasty (lipplasty) is called lip augmentation with hyaluronic acid preparations or lip augmentation with your own fat (lip lipofilling), which is not entirely correct.
Cheiloplasty itself (lipplasty) is divided into reconstructive, performed for cleft lip, cancer, consequences of injuries, and aesthetic cheiloplasty.
Aesthetic cheiloplasty (lip surgery) allows you to reduce the distance between the base of the nose and the red border of the upper lip, increase the apparent width of the colored part of the lips, and correct lip asymmetry.
In Medical Rostov-on-Don, aesthetic cheiloplasty (lip surgery) is performed by a plastic surgeon.
Before the cheiloplasty (lipplasty) operation, a standard preoperative examination is performed. The date of the operation is agreed upon with the plastic surgeon during the consultation. Hospitalization is not required, i.e. 2-3 hours after cheiloplasty (lip surgery) you will be able to leave the clinic.
Cheiloplasty (lip surgery) can be performed under local anesthesia, combined anesthesia or short-term general anesthesia. The choice of anesthesia method is made at a consultation with a plastic surgeon. Most often this is local anesthesia + premedication and the presence of an anesthesiologist in the operating room.
Technically, aesthetic cheiloplasty is performed in three options:
- Cheiloplasty (lip surgery) “bulhorn”
Cheiloplasty (lipplasty) in the “bulhorn” version is aimed at reducing the height of the skin part of the upper lip and increasing the height of the visible red part of the upper lip.
- Bullhorn cheiloplasty is the most common and effective type of lip surgery.
- Reduces the distance between the base of the nose and the red border of the upper lip.
- Increases the visible part of the upper lip mucosa
- A strip of skin is excised at the base of the nose, the scar is located at the base of the nose
- The scar after ripening is almost invisible
- Cheiloplasty (lipplasty) of the “bulhorn” type changes the shape of the lips without changing their volume.
- To increase volume, lipofilling or hyalurlonic acid preparations can then be used.
- Performed under local anesthesia, can be performed under intravenous anesthesia
- Heals in 1-3 weeks
- The effect is almost lifelong
- The second option of cheiloplasty (lip surgery) involves excision of a strip of skin along the entire contour of the lip in the place where correction is needed. This type of operation allows not only to adjust the size of the skin and mucous part of the lip, but also to more clearly give it the desired shape. The disadvantage of this method is the formation of a scar along the contour of the lip. A cosmetic suture applied by a plastic surgeon usually results in the formation of a thin, light-colored scar. To reduce its visualization, tattooing is usually used. The photo below shows secondary cheiloplasty (the first operation was performed more than 10 years ago by another surgeon), the purpose of the operation is to correct an unsuccessfully formed scar and create a more natural contour of the upper lip. There is no tattoo on these photos.
- The third option for cheiloplasty (lipplasty) is VY plastic. When performing VY lipoplasty, all scars are hidden in the oral cavity. As a result of VY lip surgery, the visible part of the lip mucosa is corrected without changing the distance from the base of the nose to the red border of the lips. VY type is the most inconspicuous, both in terms of scars and (unfortunately) the result of cheiloplasty (lip surgery).
All options for aesthetic cheiloplasty (lip surgery) involve changing the shape and size of the lips using the patient’s own local tissues. The choice of the cheiloplasty option you need is carried out during a consultation with a plastic surgeon. In some cases, cheiloplasty is supplemented with lipofilling or injections of hyaluronic acid.
The cost of cheiloplasty (lip surgery) is 30,000 rubles, which includes the cost of the operation itself, any of the anesthesia options, and a stay in the ward under observation for up to 1 day, medications to take at home for 1 week after the operation, observation for 1 year after the operation.
The cost of cheiloplasty does not include: examination 6,000 rubles
Cost of cheiloplasty in Moscow
The price for lip cheiloplasty is determined based on the chosen technology, the volume and complexity of the work, and the qualifications of the medical institution. Usually the cost of lip surgery is quite affordable and affordable for many.
The price of cheiloplasty at OLYMP CLINIC in Moscow is determined after a consultation with a plastic surgery specialist.
Plastic surgeons at OLYMP CLINIC in Moscow perform lip correction of any complexity. The desired result is achieved thanks to many years of experience and professionalism of the clinic’s specialists, the use of high-quality materials and the latest technologies.
With the help of cheiloplasty, any woman will fulfill her old dream; to do this, you just need to sign up for an initial consultation with experienced surgeons at OLYMPUS CLINIC.
Injection cheiloplasty
This type of plastic surgery is considered the most common and is based on the introduction of special preparations or solutions into the tissue. Injection plastic surgery does not require hospitalization and is accompanied by local anesthesia. The materials for injection can be:
- Biopolymer is a plastic gel used to add volume.
- Adipose tissue.
- A method called lipofilling allows you to fill your lips with fat taken from the patient himself.
- Hyaluronic acid is a natural component responsible for the balance of fluid in body tissues, which has also begun to be actively used in plastic. Injection of hyaluronic acid helps to attract and retain water in the mouth area, due to which its shape is corrected.
Lipofilling – gentle augmentation
This operation has minimal risks because the patient's own fat is taken from another to fill the volume in one area. It is processed in a special way and then transplanted. Own fat is very flexible and hypoallergenic. It allows you not only to make your mouth more voluminous, but also to correct its shape, remove asymmetry and purse-string wrinkles. The skin in the intervention area rejuvenates, becomes smooth and beautiful. The result will last forever - lush, natural lips with a natural shape. The increase will not be as radical as with contour plastic surgery, for example, with hyaluronic acid.
