Lip Service

Lucky lips (Credit: Indy Charlie)

Wouldn’t you like to be the proud owner of a pout a la Angelina Jolie? Several women turn to lip augmentation surgery to get themselves a brand new pair of lips. It’s almost as routine as shopping for a pair of stylish sandals or a pair of swaroski-studded jeans. But surgeons warn that the procedures and materials used to create celebrity pouts or to rejuvenate thinning, aged lips have varying results.

While having lip augmentation to produce a plump, sexy pout may be a real confidence booster for the young; most women undergo the treatment to improve their aging smile.
But in either case, if you think that just having your lips pumped full of filler is going to do the trick, think again. Plastic surgeons caution that women really need to know what lip augmentation involves before they go ahead with the procedure.

Plastic surgeons say that patients need to be aware of the risks and benefits of all lip fillers. Some fillers carry a higher risk of complication depending upon where they are injected, which can lead to unsatisfactory results.

Lip rejuvenation involves many decisions on the surgeon's part, such as identifying the area of the lip that needs treatment - laugh lines, lipstick lines, and inner lip - and choosing an appropriate filler for the job. Lip augmentation, combined with rejuvenation of surrounding problem areas like laugh lines, can really remove years from your appearance. The key is using the appropriate filler in the correct area.