Lip reduction surgery, otherwise known as reduction cheiloplasty or lip thinning, is a popular option among today’s plastic surgery patients. This safe outpatient treatment can thin and make lips symmetrical for cosmetic or medical reasons.
What Can Lip Reduction Surgery Do for You?
Lip reduction surgery improves the face’s overall appearance by balancing the upper and lower lips. In addition, it can help those who suffer from medical issues that affect their mouth and jaw, which can lead to problems including drooling, speech impairment, eating difficulties and a general lack of confidence.
Using the most cutting-edge methods in facial plastic surgery, Dr. Joshua D. Rosenberg can reduce the size of one or both lips while preserving or even improving their function, resulting in a more aesthetically pleasing and harmonious face.
Macrocheilia (Prominent Lips) Often Requires Lip Reduction Surgery
Macrocheilia is a medical condition where the lips are overly large. It causes problems with speech patterns and oral function, like lack of salivary control resulting in drooling. Other factors that can cause macrocheilia aside from genetics include the following:
- Dentofacial deformities (pseudo macrocheilia)
- Double lip
- Glandular hypertrophy
- Hemangiomas
- Hypertrophy
- Infection
- Inflammatory lymphedematous infiltration
- Miescher granulomatous macro cheilitis
- Neoplasms
- Tissue thickening
- Trauma
- Vascular malformations (port-wine macrocheilia)
All of these causes of prominent lips can be corrected with lip reduction surgery by an experienced, board-certified plastic surgeon like Dr. Rosenberg. You do not have to live another day with the discomfort of overly prominent lips.
What is Recovery from Lip Reduction Surgery Like?
Most people tolerate lip reduction surgery quite well. They experience minimal or no discomfort and mild to moderate inflammation. In most cases, recovery time is only one to three weeks, and patients can go back to work the day after their treatment. However, returning to vigorous activity can take weeks.
Scheduling a Consultation to Discuss Reducing the Size of Your Lips
Surgical reduction of huge lips is a safe and effective approach to improve facial harmony. Talk to Dr. Rosenberg about lip augmentation or reduction if you are not satisfied with the shape or size of your lips. Call his office to schedule a consultation today.
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