New York Cosmetic And Plastic Surgery

In the past 10 years or so, a plethora of products and techniques have been developed to make lip augmentation more effective and patient friendly. Today, lip injections are done with relative ease of due to surgeons utilizing tiny 30 and 31 gauge needles (approx. as thick as a dozen human hairs).

Some of these new techniques and injectable substances now used to plump up one’s lips include.

Fat transfer: In this surgeons harvest through liposuction or excision the patient’s fat from places on the body where it can be spared and then inject it or surgically place it into the lips. Surgical insertion typically will require general anesthesia.

Restylane: this is a non-animal, clear gel that is purported to be very close to the hyaluronic acid- a beneficial substance found naturally in the body. According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, there were over 750,000 Restylane injection procedures performed in 2006.

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