Thick or fat lips are reduced in size by removing a strip of the red part of the lip along with the underlying tissue from one end to the other end. This surgery is done under local anaesthesia without any hospital stay and both the lips can be reduced at the same time. This procedure can also be combined with other facial surgeries.

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Lip Augmentation

A variety of materials are available for enlargement of the lips to achieve a fuller, more youthful look. Injectable material include transplanted fat, collagen, and Fascian. Implants made of Gortex and Alloderm can also be inserted. Each material has some limitations. Injected fat, collagen, and Fascian tend to resorb in several months. Alloderm, is now used for lip augmentation, as well as augmentation of other areas of the face such as deep folds between the nose and mouth. It tends to feel soft and natural, but the implanted material reabsorbs by at least 50 percent with time, thus resulting in decreased volume.

Collagen Softform (Gortex) implant as long as the patient is willing to accept some of the potential inherent problems of this implant.