Lipofilling of lips - augmentation with your own tissue

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Lip lipofilling allows you to harmonize the face, add missing volume, smooth out transitions in the nasolabial triangle and make facial features softer and symmetrical. Lips are that very part of the face that is at the same time open to everyone around and at the same time conceals something hidden within itself. Despite this combination, lips are the most important part of the face; their shape and condition affect a person’s appearance.

Lip lipofilling is a minimally invasive injection procedure that allows you to correct your lips, change their shape and contours, increase volume, and eliminate adjacent wrinkles. This correction technique is one of the most natural and safe, since it involves the use of the patient’s own adipose tissue.

Speaking about beauty and youth, today, first of all, we mean the health and youth of the whole body. Naturalness, youth and health are the main features of modern beauty. Therefore, technologies that allow the body to launch its internal reserve and use the potential of its own cells to renew the skin and the entire body as a whole come to the fore.

The essence of the procedure is that fat cells are taken from problem areas of the body. After this, they undergo special processing and the resulting fatty material is injected into the subcutaneous layer of the lips. Thus, an increase in their volume and various shape correction options are achieved.

Carrying out lipofilling of the lips solves the problem of not only aesthetic transformation, this area of ​​the face is rejuvenated. At the same time, there is not even the slightest chance of rejection of the material used for correction.

Indications for lip lipofilling

Lip lipofilling is one of those aesthetic procedures for which there are no medical indications. This correction technique is performed solely on the patient’s personal initiative and desire, and the main motivation for performing the procedure is transformation.

Thus, the main indications for lipofilling include:

• age-related changes, sagging skin, the appearance of wrinkles on the lips and surrounding areas;
• asymmetry of the lips, congenital or acquired;
• insufficient volume, desire to visually enlarge one or both lips;
• drooping corners of the mouth as a result of skin ptosis and other reasons;
• injuries received during life in which the shape of the lips was damaged;
• excessively large distance between the upper lip and nose;
• the formation of facial folds in the contour of the lips or corners of the mouth.

Description and stages of the procedure

The operation is performed under general anesthesia, the procedure lasts no more than 1.5 hours.

Adipose tissue is obtained mainly from the abdomen, sides, and thighs, using special cannulas to preserve the structure of adipocytes (the integrity of fat cells). During the liposuction stage, the surgeon uses a specially designed device for gentle water-jet fat removal, Body Jet. Small incisions no longer than 0.5 cm are made in areas of the skin hidden from view. The amount of autologous fat for facial correction depends on the type and depth of the problem and the specific area of ​​injection of the material. Using flexible cannulas, the surgeon ensures low tissue trauma. The mesotherapy injection technique is selected individually, depending on the area of ​​the face and the degree of deformation. It is possible to carry out repeated correction using lipotransfer after achieving the result after 3-4 months, due to partial lysis of the graft. A higher percentage of autologous fat survival is observed in young people. In patients over 50 years of age, no more than half of the transplanted fat survives. As a result, 2-3 corrections may be required to achieve the expected result.

Features of the behavior of the procedure

Today, lipofilling of the lips is no longer regarded as a way to increase their volume; experts prefer to call this procedure modeling. This is explained by the fact that its implementation can achieve various results and cope with a large number of aesthetic disorders. This variability became possible thanks to significant progress in the development of cosmetology and plastic surgery.

The lip lipofilling technique consists of several successive stages:

1. Using a special elastic cannula, the doctor takes the required amount of adipose tissue from problem areas of the body (buttocks, thighs). The collected fat is placed in a pre-prepared sterile container to await further processing.
2. The adipose tissue is then placed in a centrifuge, where it is processed using special substances. During the processing process, fat fibers, blood and other unnecessary tissues unsuitable for lipofilling are separated.
3. The third stage is intermediate, it includes the introduction of a local anesthetic, which ensures the most comfortable and painless procedure.
4. As soon as the anesthesia takes effect, the prepared mixture of purified adipose tissue is injected into pre-designated areas of the lip. As a result, an increase in volume, smoothing of wrinkles, and modeling of shape are achieved.

The success of the procedure fully depends on the qualifications of the specialist, as well as strict adherence to the technological process. On average, it takes a doctor from 1 to 2 hours to perform lip lipofilling, which depends on the scale of the operation and the goals pursued.

The essence of the technique: what is facial lipofilling?

Fat grafting is the opposite process of liposuction, or the removal of excess fat. In this case, lipofilling technology is aimed at replenishing the missing volume of soft tissue. The technique using one’s own fat is attractive due to the combination of such important factors for the patient as efficiency, comfort, safety, absence of allergic reactions and discomfort, rapid tissue restoration and engraftment, and lifelong results.

Since your own adipose tissue is used, which is taken from other areas of the body through the gentle water-jet liposuction procedure on the Body Jet device, for example, from the abdomen, hips, knees, there is practically no risk of rejection - the biomaterial (autologous fat) ideally takes root in the new area, so the procedure is absolutely safe.

The essence of the lipofilling procedure is to move subcutaneous fat to areas that directly require improvement, to correct the contours of the facial oval, add volume, smooth out atrophic seams and folds, fill wrinkles, create a beautiful line of lips and cheekbones.

Benefits of lip lipofilling

Lip lipofilling is a relatively new modeling technique, but it has already won many supporters due to its set of advantages:

• safety – during the procedure, the patient’s own adipose tissue is used, which completely eliminates material rejection and makes lip lipofilling as safe as possible;
• taking into account the characteristics of the material and the technology of its preparation, side effects such as allergic reactions are excluded;
• compliance with all the rules for performing lipofilling and the involvement of a qualified doctor is the key to obtaining the ideal volume and shape of the lips, eliminating even serious aesthetic disorders;
• adipose tissue is a light filler, and its natural origin ensures stimulation of regeneration processes, minimizing the risk of swelling, bruising and hematomas;
• due to the fact that lip lipofilling is a minimally invasive procedure, damage to tissues and blood vessels during its implementation is practically eliminated, which allows for minimal rehabilitation time;
• adipose tissue is a pliable material that is easy to work with, thanks to this the process of lip correction is simplified, and it is easier for the specialist to achieve exactly the result that the patient expects.

SURGICAL REDUCTION OF THE LAVA MAJOR

This operation is performed quite rarely. As a rule, older women resort to it, or after very large weight loss. This operation is necessary if the labia have lost volume, elasticity, sag very much and interfere with the normal active (including sexual) life of a woman. The technique is simple: the atrophic, sagging tissue of the labia majora is excised and a thin cosmetic suture is applied. Rehabilitation takes no more than 3-4 weeks. If necessary, after complete healing, you can add volume, giving a full, youthful appearance to the labia majora using lipofilling.

Photos before and after lip lipofilling

The patient underwent lip lipofilling and a nanofat procedure, which significantly improved the quality of the skin of the entire face.

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Cost of lip lipofilling at Dr. Grishkyan’s clinic in Moscow

Lipofilling of lips

Rejuvenating effect. Is it possible to completely eliminate sagging and ptosis?

Any plastic surgery is very individual. This applies to both intimate plastic surgery and intimate rejuvenation. For each patient, we select the optimal correction method, which allows us to solve any aesthetic and functional problems. Which method is right for you? You can find out about this during a free consultation.

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We advise you to find out more: • About the doctor - Professor Gagarina Svetlana Vyacheslavovna • Price of plastic surgery of the labia majora (see price list) • Intimate rejuvenation (read) • Labiaplasty (read)

When can lipofilling be done?

Plastic surgery such as lipofilling solves a wide range of aesthetic problems: from cosmetic to modeling body contours and even engraving athletic muscle relief.
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body liposculpture
When lipofilling can be done - aesthetic indications:

• Lack of volume – you would like to slightly enlarge your breasts, buttocks, lips, cheekbones, lower legs, chin, etc.
• Imperfection of the contours of the figure - you can make the contour of the buttocks smoother or, conversely, sporty, and the facial features more sculpted, etc.
• Flabby, dry skin that has lost its tone and healthy glow;
• Painful thinness;
• Wrinkles (facial wrinkles, nasolabial folds, nasolacrimal groove, purse-string wrinkles, “crow’s feet”), etc.
• Jaws and loose skin after radical weight loss;
• Asymmetry of the face or body;
• Sunken temples;
• Scarring;
• Striae (stretch marks);
• Dark spots;
• Dark circles under the eyes and signs of aging of the skin in the periorbital area;
• After plastic surgery - blepharoplasty (dry skin and wrinkles in the eyelid area), endoprosthetics of the breasts and buttocks (contouring of implants with a lack of own fatty tissue), facelift.

To determine if this surgery is right for you, you can schedule an in-person or online consultation with a plastic surgeon.

What are the advantages of the procedure?

High-quality lipofilling in a clinical setting has a lot of advantages, which determine the constant increase in demand for this procedure. Lipofilling can be considered an ideal procedure for rejuvenation due to the absence of many restrictions, difficulties, and risks inherent in other plastic surgeries and procedures:

• age limits;
• risk of rejection of the transplanted fat;
• tissue injury;
• the short-term nature of the result obtained (autologous fat, which takes root in the tissues, remains with the patient for life).

The advantages include the possibility of high-quality correction of most age-related defects on the face (filling deep wrinkles and nasolabial folds, replenishing the missing volume of the lips, cheekbones, midface, nasolacrimal grooves and temporal areas), a wide range of effects, hypoallergenicity, safety and painlessness of the procedure, fast achieving results. Since a person’s own fat is used for lipotransfer, the procedure does not require complex preparation and guarantees a low percentage of tissue rejection from the patient.

Recovery after lipofilling

Lipofilling is a minimally traumatic plastic surgery without incisions or scars. Within 3 days, and possibly earlier, the patient returns to his normal rhythm of life. Swelling and bruising from the cannula disappear within 7-14 days. Recovery after lipofilling does not require any special measures. If the patient has undergone body liposculpture, special compression garments should be worn for some time after the operation. You can speed up recovery after lipofilling using the recovery programs of our cosmetology center.

Why is it worth getting lipofilling at the Pirogov Clinic?

• The Pirogov Clinic was recognized as the best plastic surgery clinic
  according to the national rating of private clinics in St. Petersburg by the medical portal “Doctor Peter” and the city portal “Fontanka.ru” in 2021;
• Free consultations with plastic surgeons for primary patients;
• Own laboratory and diagnostic rooms equipped with modern equipment - results of preoperative examination quickly and with a guarantee of reliability;
• Availability of all highly specialized doctors and medical specialists in one building;
• Comfortable wards and day hospital;
• Organizational assistance from a supervisor for patients from other cities;
• Affordable prices for lipofilling and liposuction;
• Online consultations with plastic surgeons;
• Pleasant bonuses from the cosmetology department;
• Monthly promotions and special offers from the plastic surgery department;
• Interest-free installment plan and loan for plastic surgery;
• VHI service.

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