Lip Enhancement
January 15, 2009 @ 12:43 PM — by Douglas Mackenzie
Today the FoxNews website had an article speculating whether Paris Hilton got her lips enhanced recently while in Australia. As is typical with these stories, a couple New York and Beverly Hills plastic surgeons were quoted, and based on the recent photos, opined in the affirmative. So that prompted me to write this…
Lip Enhancement, or Lip Augmentation, is the second most common procedure that plastic surgeons perform behind breast augmentation. There are certainly some very common concerns I hear when I see patients interested in improving their lips. But before I go into that I’ll start with the basics. Lips can be enhanced to correct the effects of aging, or just provide sexier lips to someone whose lips may be thinner than they would like. Let’s discuss the aging lip first…
As a person ages, their lips, along with the rest of their facial tissues, tend to atrophy, or shrink. The deflation from the plump lips of their youth causes the lips to lose the crisp edge be