Patient education
Lip Aesthetics: Concerns and Options
Written for someone deciding about their own mouth rather than studying the subject. If you read only one, read the anatomy guide, because which of the four structures is responsible decides everything that follows and it is the step most often skipped.
All guides
12 guides
- Lip Anatomy: Vermilion, Border, Philtrum and Orbicularis MuscleAnatomy
- Volume, Border and Position: Three Lip Complaints That Need Different TreatmentDeciding
- Lip Filler: What It Can Change and What It CannotOptions
- The Lip Flip and the Gummy Smile: Muscle, Not VolumeMuscle and volume
- A Lip Lift Shortens the Philtrum: Who It Suits and Who It Does NotSurgery
- Lip Lines Above the Border: Treating the Cause, Not the CreasesCauses
- Lip Asymmetry: How It Is Assessed and What Can Be BalancedAssessment
- Surgical Lip Augmentation: Grafts, Implants and Their Trade-OffsSurgery
- Lip Reduction: An Operation for Patients Told They Need MoreSurgery
- Filler Over Years in the Lips: Migration, Overfill and ReversalLong term
- Lip Recovery and the First Two Weeks: Swelling, Bruising and SpeakingRecovery
- Choosing a Practitioner for Lip WorkChoosing
Establish which part of the lip is the question
Arrange an assessment. The lip is measured at rest and while it moves, and you will be told which finding is responsible, what each route would change, and what it would leave exactly as it is.