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COVID Brings a New Focus on Lip Procedures such as a Lip lift

Dr. Andrew Jacono discusses Lip Lifts
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Since the beginning of the pandemic, plastic surgeons and dermatologists have noted an increase in demand for cosmetic lip procedures. These include temporary solutions like facial fillers, though longer-lasting surgical options, like the lip lift, have also welcomed new popularity.

“One of the primary causes of the surge in lip lift demand is that we have all been wearing masks,” says Dr. Jacono. “Patients don’t have to worry as much about swelling and recovery time. They can leave the house comfortably with their faces covered.”

What Makes a Good Lip Augmentation?

One of the most encouraging aspects of lip augmentation is that it offers subtle changes. In other words, most treatments do not make patients look unnatural or “overfilled.” The goal, then, is not to substantially alter facial anatomy, but to tweak and enhance it in aesthetically pleasing ways.

“Many of my prospective lip augmentation patients are afraid of getting treatment because they see so many exaggerated outcomes,” says Dr. Jacono. “More traditional techniques can create overfilled lips, but newer, more evolved approaches avoid them altogether.”

According to most surgeons, the key to plumper lips is an upper-to-lower lip proportion of one-third to two-thirds. When the upper lip is larger than the lower lip, the results can look distorted. To strike the right balance, it is best to consult with a professional who has demonstrated expertise.

“If you want excellent results, you need to consult a board-certified dermatologist or plastic surgeon,” Dr. Jacono elaborates. “These kinds of doctors have years of training in cosmetic treatments for all areas of the face, including the lips.”

Lip Fillers vs. Lip Lifts: What Is the Difference?

Both lip fillers and lip lifts provide outstanding outcomes that can alter the aesthetic harmony of the face. That said, there are some differences that all lip augmentation patients should be aware of.

Lip Filler

Lip fillers are dissolvable injectable compounds that offer short-term cosmetic results. A single lip filler session can provide patients with plumper lips for anywhere between 6 months and a year, at which point maintenance is required.

“Fillers had a bad rap in the past because some people want visibly overfilled lips,” says Dr. Jacono. “However, the vast majority of patients who undergo a lip filler treatment opt for more subtle changes. In these cases, half a vial or less of filler is all that is needed.”

To further assuage worry, surgeons and dermatologists have their patients watch the procedure in a mirror to monitor how much filler is being used. And, if a patient is unhappy with the result, doctors can inject an enzyme, called hyaluronidase, to dissolve the material within a day.

Lip Lift

The lip lift, on the other hand, is a surgical treatment that directly manipulates facial architecture. Surgeons remove a strip of skin from between the nose and the lip, tighten the underlying muscle, and raise the upper lip to a more youthful position.

If the skin between the base of the nostrils and the border of the top lip has become longer with age, and a patient wants their top lip to have more volume, then a lip lift is perhaps the strongest option on the market. The best lip lifts are well-executed enough to be inconspicuous, and with recent technological and surgical developments, they have become even more reliable.

“For many years, the lip lift resulted in serious scarring and other post-operative complications,” says Dr. Jacono. “Thankfully, these issues have been almost completely resolved, and the lip lift has become one of the safest facial plastic surgical procedures.”

Unlike lip fillers, the lip lift is a permanent solution and does not require touch-ups every few months. This means that, while it is a more expensive procedure, it is more cost-effective over time.

“The lip lift is one of my favorite procedures to perform,” says Dr. Jacono. “It’s a simple technique, but it has the potential to rebalance the face’s broader aesthetics. It’s incredibly rewarding to see my patients so happy with such understated changes.”

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Doctor Jacono’s desire to become a facial plastic surgeon was solidified in grade school. There was a girl on his school bus route who was born with a cleft lip and palate deformity. Unfortunately, whenever she spoke, air and words escaped through her nose. Kids teased her and were cruel, and nobody would sit next to her on the bus, so he decided to sit with her. One day, the girl had plastic surgery and returned to school with her face repaired. Suddenly, classmates saw her face instead of her deformity and immediately treated her normally. It was at that moment that Doctor Jacono knew he wanted to fix people’s faces and change their lives. This is why he has gone on over twenty plastic surgery missions to poor countries around the world and provided free cleft lip and surgery for birth defects to over 500 children.

Because of this experience in his childhood, Doctor Jacono understands that one of our basic needs as human beings is to feel confident about our appearance. It’s is Doctor Jacono’s passion to help his patients achieve their facial aesthetic goals, creating natural appearing results to either enhance their beauty and proportion or rejuvenate their aging appearance. He is a world-renowned leader in the field of facial plastic surgery and only performs surgery on the face, not the body. He has innovated many facelift, eyelid lift, and rhinoplasty surgical techniques, publishing in leading peer reviewed literature and lecturing at plastic surgery conferences all over the world. He is committed to sharing what he has learned teaching surgeons from around the world.

His approach is to maintain your uniqueness and facial identity; it is still you just better. To do this he uses a customized, bespoke approach to each patient employing the most minimally invasive, innovative, and cutting-edge technology. Doctor Jacono has never performed the same procedure on any two of the thousands of patients he has treated. He is committed to providing his surgical expertise in a caring, supportive environment with a professional staff that has you as their focus and concern.