Lip Augmentation in Beverly Hills
Lip augmentation adds volume to your lips to make them more alluring and your face more attractive. Because the lips tend to thin with age, lip augmentation can make you look younger. Lip augmentation can also enhance the shape of your lips or correct asymmetry.
Lip augmentation is most often performed using injectable facial fillers, also called dermal fillers, in formulations that match the flexibility and softness of your lip tissue. Longer-lasting results are obtained with facial fat grafting, a technique that uses your own fat to enhance your lips. In facial fat grafting, unwanted fat is removed from a part of your body you’d like to be slimmer, then purified for injection into your lips. When performed by a skilled and experienced practitioner, both approaches can create beautifully natural-looking results.
Daniel Golshani, MD, FACS performs lip augmentations with facial fat grafting in Beverly Hills to help men and women achieve more sculpted body contours and enhance facial beauty. Under Dr. Golshani’s supervision, his DGMD Medi-Spa offers lip augmentation with dermal filler injections.
Dr. Golshani is a double-board-certified plastic surgeon with deep expertise and extensive experience in cosmetic facial surgery and non-surgical facial treatments. Avosant Clinic is a full-service medi-spa offering a wide range of medical aesthetic procedures. Contact us today to learn more about lip augmentation and the other cosmetic treatments we offer and to schedule an appointment for your treatment.
Why You Might Consider Lip Augmentation in Beverly Hills
Lip augmentation can:
- Make your lips plumper and your face more attractive
- Restore fullness to lips that have thinned with age, making you look younger
- Make lips that have always been thin more prominent
- Improve your resting facial expression by lifting the corners of your mouth to give you a happier look
- Give your lips more definition
- Smooth vertical lines in your lips and the skin just above them
- Correct asymmetry in your lips
- Improve the balance and harmony of your facial features
- Boost your self-esteem and self-confidence
Facial Fillers or Fat Transfer for Lip Augmentation?
Facial filler injections and fat transfer can both create beautiful lip augmentation results, whether your goal is to add volume to your lips, enhance the shape of your lips, or correct asymmetry. The difference lies in the ease and convenience of the treatments, how long the results last, and whether you also want the body-contouring effects of liposuction in another part of your body.
Lip augmentation with facial fillers is fast and convenient, with minimal discomfort and no downtime. The results, however, are temporary. The enhancements typically last from a few months to two years, depending on the formulation used and your metabolism. When the results begin to fade, you can have refresher treatments to extend them.
Lip augmentation with fat grafting is a more involved procedure, as it also includes body contouring with liposuction. In this part of the treatment, small incisions are made to insert a thin surgical tube, or cannula, through which excess fat is suctioned out of the body. Liposuction is considered a minimally invasive procedure, but it is surgery, and it does take time to recover from the treatment. The purified fat injections into the lips are no more uncomfortable than injections of facial fillers. The difference is that the enhancements made with facial fat grafting are very long-lasting and will not have to be repeated. Consider lip augmentation with facial fillers if you’re seeking a quick, convenient, and temporary solution, one you can choose to extend with refresher treatments if you’re pleased with the results.
Consider lip augmentation with fat grafting if you’d like to remove stubborn pockets of unwanted fat from a part of your body—perhaps your abdomen, thighs, hips, buttocks, upper arms, or a double chin—and use some of that fat for more permanent enhancement of your lips.
What to Expect in a Lip Augmentation Treatment Session
Lip augmentation with facial fillers is performed in our Beverly Hills DGMD Medi-Spa. We will numb your lips before treatment, then use a fine needle to inject precise amounts of the filler to create the desired enhancements. The treatment usually takes less than 15 minutes.
Lip augmentation with facial fat grafting combines two procedures: first, liposuction for body contouring, then injections of the harvested fat into your lips. Liposuction is performed using general or local anesthesia in our state-of-the-art surgical center, the Rexford Surgical Institute, on the same floor as our office. Fat is broken up for extraction using small incisions and a surgical tube or cannula. A portion of the fat is then processed for injection into the lips. Dr. Golshani’s G-Stem™ fat-purification technique increases the amount of stem cells in the processed fat. You’ll need a trusted friend or family member to drive you home once the effects of the anesthesia have worn off.
What to Expect After Your Lip Augmentation Treatment
There’s no downtime after lip augmentation with facial fillers. When the injections are finished, you’re free to go home, return to work, or resume your normal activities. You may have some minor swelling in your lips, but this is rarely noticeable, can be minimized with the application of ice, and typically disappears within a couple of days. We’ll ask you not to do any strenuous activity or lie face-down for the first day after your treatment.
After lip augmentation with fat grafting, you’ll recover from liposuction and the fat injections in your lips. You can expect some swelling and bruising in the areas treated with liposuction in the first few days. Any discomfort you experience can usually be managed with over-the-counter pain medication. If only a small amount of fat has been removed with liposuction, you can resume your normal activities immediately. If larger amounts of fat have been removed, you may need to rest at home for a few days. Dr. Golshani and his staff will provide thorough instructions on how to care for yourself as you recover and when to return for follow-up visits.
With either treatment, your lips will appear somewhat over-full for the first few days. Your results will gradually improve after that as swelling from the injections disappears and some of the injected filler or fat is processed out of your body as waste.
Contact Us Today About Lip Augmentation in Beverly Hills
Contact us today to learn more about lip augmentation and the other cosmetic treatments we offer in our DGMD Medi-Spa or to schedule an appointment with Dr. Golshani to find out if you’re a good candidate for liposuction and fat grafting.
Frequently Asked Questions About Lip Augmentation
The results of lip augmentation with facial filler injections are temporary. Depending on the filler used and your metabolism, the results can last for a few months or for up to two years. You’ll want to come back to our practice periodically to get refresher treatments to maintain your results.
The results of lip augmentation with fat grafting are very long-lasting. In the first few weeks, some of the grafted fat will be processed out of the body as waste, but most of it will permanently remain where it has been placed in the lips. It links to the blood supply and becomes part of your lips’ new contours.
Dr. Golshani’s G-Stem technique for boosting the concentration of stem cells in the fat processed for injection brings two essential benefits. First, it increases the grafted fat cells’ survival rate, improving the procedure’s results by enabling more precise and predictable volume enhancement. The results can be disappointing if too many transferred fat cells are processed out of the body as waste, as can happen with traditional fat grafting methods. Dr. Golshani’s results are more reliably pleasing and natural-looking. Second, the added stem cells stimulate collagen production in the skin, a compound that plays a key role in keeping tissue resilient, flexible, and smooth. Both of those benefits of the G-Stem™ technique help set Dr. Golshani’s facial fat grafting results apart from those of other plastic surgeons.
Yes. Lip Augmentation, whether with Facial Fillers or Fat Grafting, can be combined with cosmetic facial surgery or medi-spa treatments to address loose, sagging skin, skin tone and texture, and other concerns. Botox® injections can smooth lines and wrinkles caused by repeated facial expressions. A chemical peel can improve skin texture and brightness. Microdermabrasion can help to restore skin resilience. Dr. Golshani offers his Los Angeles patients a combined procedure called the G-Stem facelift, which includes a multi-planar SMAS facelift, a neck lift with corset platysmaplasty, and advanced Facial Fat Grafting. The results are natural-looking, balanced, and long-lasting.
Dermal filler injections are offered by a wide range of practitioners, including many with far less medical and cosmetic expertise than Dr. Golshani and our medi-spa specialists. While the injections seem simple, quick, and convenient for patients, they require a deep understanding of facial anatomy and aesthetics to perform safely and to create attractive and natural-looking results. An even greater degree of medical knowledge and aesthetic sensitivity are required to safely and successfully perform liposuction and fat grafting. Your face, appearance, and health are too important to be trusted by any but the most skilled and caring medical expert.