The Treatment of Upper Lip Lines and Wrinkles

I discover a recent article that reports that drinking directly from water bottles can reason just as many upper lip wrinkles as smoking. I wouldn't query it as any activity that makes your lips pucker, which activates the orbicularis oris muscle which encircles the mouth, can doer wrinkles to come forth on the upper lip. The development of such wrinkles is a function of both the labor and how oftentimes it is done. Drinking water these days for some citizens is approximately as frequent as a accepted smoker who does one or two packs per day.

As a general principle, wrinkles fashion on the face perpendicular to the course of method of the underlying muscle movement. For example, horizontal brow wrinkles are the creature of ther vertically-oriented and moving frontalis muscle which extends from the brows upward into the scalp. Since the mouth's main muscle (like the eyes) is a sphincter or enclosing muscle which lies match (horizontal) to the upper and lower lip (except at the corners), it is no surprise that the lips (particularly the upper) develops vertical wrinkles in some people. The other factor that highly contributes to lip wrinkles is the thickness of your skin and the size of your lips. (which is interrelated) The thicker your skin, the less likely you testament ever develop them. You rarely discern lip wrinkles in people with thicker skin such as African-Americans and people of Middle Eastern descents for example. (and they acquire larger lips to begin with....as their skin is thicker)

Treatment of lip wrinkles is a challenging problem. I tell patients to esteem of it as improvement as there is no complete cure in most cases. For bitty and fine lines that are chiefly located at the junction of the skin and the lip, an injectable filler can make a lovely improvement...provided you bargain it worthy to bear a larger lip size. (whichever you desire) When the lip wrinkles are deeper and race higher into the upper lip, the perception of skin resurfacing comes into play. This typically process lase resurfacing and the question is how far to go with how long of a recovery that will be pleasant to the patient. When the lip lines and wrinkles are more severe, I usually call a combination of making the lip bigger with injectable fillers and resurfacing the skin with a laser. This is normally done under local anaesthesia in the office unless the patient is having other above facial surgery, such as a facelift, where the procedure would be then performed in the operating room. Now proponents for fractional (fraxel) laser treatments finish that it offers better results than traditional laser resurfacing but that has not yet been clinically proven. In the aggrandized severe cases, a small immensity of Botox to benefit reduce the extent of muscle movement can also be helpful when done with fillers or laser resurfacing nevertheless you must be careful to not appropriateness to much lest you accomplish your smile have an unnatural appearance.

Alternative treatments for lip wrinkles through skin alteration are currently being evaluated. One method is to combine laser resurfacing with the use of sandpaper (yes I said sandpaper), avowed as laserbrasion. With laserbrasion, a combination of upper skin emigration is done early with the laser and the deeper skin areas are taken down with sandpaper. The impression here is that the end of sandpaper causes less trauma (no heat) and will heal faster without the prolonged redness. And it is just as able as the laser but safer and with less complications than whether one used traditional dermabrasion. The other method is noted as percutaneous collagen induction therapy. (PCIT) Like aerating your lawn, making very tiny holes throughout the upper lip with a petite wheel lined with microscopic needles cuts into the deepest portions of the skini. As this heals it causes the skin to thicken which helps decrease the dimensions of visible wrinkling.

Upper lip wrinkles in some women are unavoidable and can be appropriate troubling. Injectable lip fillers, laser resurfacing, and Botox can assist but there is no permanent cure. The alternative treatments of fractional laser treatments, laserbrasion, and collagen induction therapy are captivating however it is too early to know provided they will hit greater results.


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Dr Barry Eppley, board-certified plastic surgeon of Indianapolis, is in private experience at Clarian North and West Medical Centers in suburban Indianapolis. He writes a diurnal blog on plastic surgery at http://www.exploreplasticsurgery.com

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