In modern society there are double standards of beauty. Many famous fashion houses, photographers, representatives of the beauty industry and other industries actively spread the belief that any appearance is beautiful and unique - one should not be ashamed of any shortcomings. But on the other hand, the opinion of certain standards is persistently imposed, which, moreover, change very quickly.
But many people have to turn to plastic surgeons and cosmetologists not for the sake of fashion, but in order to correct defects in appearance. Lip contouring is one of the most common procedures. It is carried out to increase the volume of the lips, improve the contour, eliminate scars, correct asymmetry, age-related changes, etc. In order for the procedure itself and the rehabilitation period to be successful, certain recommendations should be followed.
The most common filler for lip injections is hyaluronic acid.
Collagen was originally used as a lip filler, but has now been replaced by hyaluronic acid. This material is found in the best brands of fillers because it is well accepted by the body and lasts longer.
Fat taken from the thighs or abdomen is also used as filler. Compared to hyaluronic acid and collagen, it takes longer to be accepted by the body, but also lasts longer. The variety of fillers used allows cosmetologists to choose the most suitable option for lip augmentation.
What is prohibited after lip augmentation?
After injections of hyaluronic acid into the lips, the following is prohibited:
- massage your lips or touch them with your hands - this can lead to infection;
- drinking alcohol;
- perform intense physical exercise;
- visit a bathhouse, sauna, swimming pool, as sudden changes in pressure and temperature can lead to the appearance of bruises and swelling;
- sunbathe;
- exclude laser treatment during the first two weeks, since under the influence of the laser, fillers can heat up and be destroyed.
It is important to know and follow these simple rules. Proper preparation and adherence to recommendations will avoid unwanted complications.
If ulcers appear on the lips, you should consult a doctor
These sores are not caused by a cold, but by injections. Unlike herpes, they are not contagious, but they can be painful and itchy. In this case, massage and anti-inflammatory drugs will help.
This complication can be caused by concomitant diseases, such as diabetes mellitus or dysfunction of internal organs. With these diseases, any impact on the body threatens with ulcerations, purulent processes and other unpleasant complications. To prevent them, it is advisable to donate blood for sugar and biochemistry before the procedure. Then the doctor will prescribe medications in advance to prevent the appearance of ulcers.
Purulent lesions often occur after lip augmentation in women who smoke. It is assumed that the situation is caused by the negative effects of nicotine on tissue. Therefore, smokers need to think about the advisability of such a procedure.
Side effects and contraindications
Filler based on hyaluronic acid has virtually no side effects. Contraindications are common for injection procedures: inflammatory processes in the area of drug administration, blood clotting disorders, acute infectious diseases, pregnancy, lactation, oncopathology and severe systemic diseases. If a biopolymer, a synthetic product incompatible with hyaluronic acid, was previously injected into the lips, lip augmentation cannot be performed.
How long does it take for lips to heal after augmentation?
After lip augmentation, swelling, small hematomas, compactions and loss of sensitivity in the area of injection of the drug can normally be observed. The rehabilitation period usually takes 1-3 days.
Recommendations after lip augmentation
In the first hours after the procedure, it is important to exclude the slightest possibility of injury to the circumlabial area. Do not eat hot food or drinks, take a hot shower or wash your face with hot water. You should try not to use active facial expressions.
For 3 days after the injection, you need to limit as much as possible decorative cosmetics in the lip area, smoking, sleeping on your stomach, kissing, drinking alcohol, staying in the open sun, active laughter and screaming.
View portfolio
Having an education and a license does not mean much experience in performing such injections. Therefore, you should definitely familiarize yourself with the portfolio, which contains photographs before and after injections. An experienced specialist should have a lot of such photos in his assets.
Some doctors photograph patients for their portfolios without their permission. You cannot take any photos, much less post them on social networks, without the patient’s consent.
Only inject if you are 100% sure of your decision. Injecting fillers to take a beautiful photo on social networks or to surprise someone is not advisable. If you don’t like the result, you will have to endure it for about six months until the injected drug is completely absorbed.
You can undergo lip augmentation by contacting the Aesthetic Medicine Center. Specialists will select the most suitable filler, make injections and monitor the tissue healing process.
Indications for correction of lip size and shape
Correcting the contours of the lips, their size, thereby giving the appearance of sexuality is required for women who have too thin lips from birth.
Main indications for the procedure:
· age-related changes, in particular loss of previous volume, wrinkles;
· excessively thin upper lip and at the same time sagging lower lip;
· short and thin upper lip;
· teeth are visible if the mouth is closed;
· folds around the mouth;
· lip defects, congenital or acquired due to injury;
· papillomas, cysts or other benign neoplasms in the lip area;
· violation of lip symmetry;
· uneven size of the upper lip in relation to the lower lip.
Why lip contouring for lip augmentation?
Hyaluronic acid is a natural component in the human body.
In the deep layers of the skin, it is responsible for hydration, participates in the processes of cell regeneration, the production of collagen and elastin (the fiber of “youth” of the skin). In human skin, hyaluronic acid is localized between elastic fibers and collagen in the form of a gel substance. It is responsible for the delivery of beneficial substances from the bloodstream to the skin cells and maintains hydrobalance. Over time, the presence of hyaluronic acid becomes less and less, which contributes to the loss of elasticity of the dermis.
During contouring, a special preparation based on hyaluronic acid is injected under the skin. It fills wrinkles and folds from the inside, thus increasing volume and correcting the contour of the lips. If lips need to be enlarged, the drug is injected into the right places to obtain the required shape.
Only a highly qualified cosmetologist will be able to perform a “jeweller” procedure of contour plastic surgery, which will ensure uniform distribution of the drug in the tissues and give an excellent aesthetic result.
Preparation for the procedure, rehabilitation, contraindications
No special preparation is required for the procedure, but it is better to stop taking blood thinning medications and not drink alcohol for a few days. To minimize the possible negative consequences of lip augmentation with fillers, do not touch the injection sites with your hands and do not massage the treated area. It is better to postpone the use of decorative cosmetics for a while. To quickly relieve swelling, you can use cold. The procedure is not recommended during pregnancy and lactation; relative contraindications also include diabetes mellitus and the presence of autoimmune diseases. In case of aggravated allergic anamnesis, it is advisable to do a preliminary test for sensitivity to the active components of the drug. You should not give injections if there are injuries, inflammations, or herpetic eruptions in the treatment area.
Consequences of drinking alcohol
1. Destruction of hyaluronic acid. By reacting with hyaluronic acid, alcohol destroys it. As a result, hyaluronic acid is absorbed into the tissue, dissolves in the intercellular substance, and we have dehydrated skin.
2. Severe dehydration of the skin. If you drink alcohol before the filler injection procedure, then the risk of crusting increases at the injection sites, and peeling and cracking on the lips, which can contribute to a more unpleasant consequence - infection.
3. Increased blood pressure. When drinking alcohol, your heart rate increases, which does not have a beneficial effect on the result of the correction (there may be bruising during the procedure, and severe swelling afterward). Photos before and after lip augmentation.
Photo from the website of D.R.
Grishkyan. There are contraindications, specialist consultation is required 4. The appearance of hematomas. Alcohol is a vasodilator, which increases the risk of bruising.
5. Weakening or, conversely, strengthening of anesthetics. The effects of alcohol manifest themselves in unpredictable ways.
6. Weakening of the immune system. The defenses are already weakened by the introduction of fillers and anesthesia, and alcohol consumption further weakens the immune system. As a result, the herpes simplex virus can be activated, which will decorate the newly formed lips with rashes.
Who is suitable for contour lip augmentation?
Contour plastic surgery to correct the shape and volume of the lips is recommended for everyone who has reached the age of majority and wishes to:
- increase lip size;
- adjust the shape of the lips;
- correct lip asymmetry;
- raise the corners of the mouth;
- eliminate small wrinkles on the lips;
- make a clear lip contour.
Before the procedure, be sure to consult a cosmetologist. The specialist will give you all the necessary information about the procedure and select the drug that is suitable for you.
Contraindications for lip augmentation with hyaluronic acid
Hyaluronic acid is not an artificially created substance, as many people mistakenly believe. This is a natural substance, part of the connective tissues of the animal body, which is necessarily present, including in humans. When scientists learned to obtain HA artificially, its use in various anti-aging cosmetic procedures began to be used more than widely.
Wrinkles, small skin defects, sagging skin - injections of hyaluronic acid help cope with such problems perfectly. Lip plastic procedures using this amazing ingredient are also popular in beauty salons. Yes, of course, there are some contraindications for lip augmentation with hyaluronic acid, but compared to other methods, there are significantly fewer of them.
Let's see what advantages and disadvantages this technique hides, as well as what indications and against it exist.
Advantages and disadvantages
We will not now describe the procedure for increasing lip volume and correcting their contours using HA injections. Let’s pay more attention to what this technique is good at and what “pitfalls” it contains.
So, the benefits of using hyaluronic acid are as follows:
- The natural substance, which is HA, does not lead to inflammation and hardening of the skin at the injection sites.
- Rejection of hyaluronic acid by the tissues of the human body does not occur, since HA is completely compatible with them.
- Injections into the lips using this unique substance help rejuvenate the skin and normalize natural metabolic processes in tissues.
- Hyaluronic acid is absolutely hypoallergenic.
- There are no restrictions on the number of procedures performed.
After a certain time in the body, the drug is completely absorbed by skin tissue, breaks down into water and carbon dioxide and is excreted naturally.
Of course, there are disadvantages, as well as contraindications for lip augmentation with hyaluronic acid. First of all, these include the short duration of action of HA and, as a consequence, the return of the shape and volume of the lips to their original parameters in a short time. The effect of the drug, as a rule, ends six months after lip surgery, after which, as mentioned above, hyaluronic acid is eliminated from the body on its own.
The second (and last) drawback, although not significant, is the likelihood of several procedures to increase lip volume. True, this is only required if during the first procedure the desired lip volume could not be achieved.
Now let’s talk about who is contraindicated for lip plastic surgery with hyaluronic acid injections.
Taboo on lip augmentation
There are relatively few, but contraindications for lip augmentation with hyaluronic acid still exist for some women. These include:
- Inflammatory processes on the skin around the lips or on the lips themselves
- Hypersensitivity to the drug used
- Autoimmune diseases
- Herpes on the lips
- Taking blood thinners (anticoagulants)
- The tendency of the skin to form scars, as well as the presence of scars and scars on the lips
- Allergy to local anesthetics
- Skin infections
- Presence of other filler in lips
- Pregnancy and lactation
Among other things, women suffering from any chronic diseases are strongly recommended to undergo a preliminary examination and consult a specialist about the safety of lip plastic surgery with hyaluronic acid injections.
Otherwise, there are no obstacles to the procedure. If you are healthy, feel free to go to a cosmetologist and increase the beauty of your face!
Drugs
- Restylane is a Swedish filler that gives lasting results and disappears within 6-12 months. The line includes 7 varieties of the product.
- Juvederm is an effective, durable, safe gel to use. Suitable for correcting not only lips, but also other areas of the face.
- Teosyal - natural preparations based on hyaluronic acid, restore tissue volume, are effective, safe, and give long-lasting results.
- Belotero is a liquid gel for contouring, presented in 3 series of preparations. The “lightest” option is soft, it is injected into the surface layers of the skin and is suitable for correcting minor age-related changes.
Lip contouring.
Results of lip augmentation procedures with hyaluronic fillers performed at GMTClinic. The photographs are posted with the written consent of the Clinic’s patients. The drugs and the amount of correction were selected individually.
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