Lip correction - remodelling of lips and wrinkles

Small lips make you look strict and not very communicative. One effect of the ageing process is that your body stops manufacturing collagen and this results in wrinkles. This is the reason why lip correction en lipofilling are a field of the aesthetic surgery that is in great demand. There is more than one way to to increase the fullness of your lips.

Wrinkles treatment with fillers

The ideal filler is bio-compatible (there is no transplant rejection), doesn't cause any allergic reaction, is not cancer-causing, shows a good long term effect, doesn't have any side effects and results in a natural look. Alas, the ideal material doesn't exist yet, but there are many highly advanced alternatives.

There are three schools:

artificial products
biological products (of animal or human origin)
own tissue (implant immediately after explant)

Artificial products:

Since 1900, many different materials have been used, such as: gold, silver, paraffin, foam, very thin wires, hard rubber, silk, ivory, silicon (liquid, oily, gel-like, foam-like and solid), polymethyl methacrylate (probably better known as Plexiglas) and polytetrafluoroethylene (Teflon). Synthetic fillers do show a good long term result, but they also know quite a high chance of an inflammatory rejection reaction of the body.

The effect of biological implants of own tissue is only temporary. Often they last only six months and have to be refilled if you want to to maintain the benefit over a longer period of time. Follow up injections last several years in some patients.

An inconvenient truth: if you smoke more than fifty packages of cigarettes a year you'll get five times the wrinkles a non smoker your age gets. Intense sun bathing means tripling your wrinkle formation. To sum it up: a smoking sun bed user ages eight time faster. His or her wrinkles are too deep to smooth them. Your facial expression however is the most prominent reason for wrinkles. Therefore it is worth the effort to smooth parts of your face with Botulinum toxin first.

Overview of materials

Biological material - subcutaneous fillers of wrinkles with own tissue	Method of injection	Long term effect
Own-blood-gel with vitamin C	intradermal, subcutaneous, intramuscular	3-6 months; 10% stays permanent
Own, conditioned collagen	intradermal	3-6 months
Own, conditioned dermis	intradermal, subcutaneous	permanent
Own, conditioned fibroblasts	intradermal, subcutaneous	permanent
Own dermis transplantation	intradermal, subcutaneous	1 – 2 years
Own fat	subcutaneous, intramuscular	3 months to years
Subcutaneous filler with fat tissue collagen	intradermal	3-6 months
Gelatin	intradermal	3-6 months
Hyaluronan	intradermal	> 6 months
Lactic acid	intradermal	1 years
Extraneous human collagen	intradermal	1 years
Hyaluronan + dextran	intradermal, subcutaneous	> 2 years
Artificial material PMMA + collagen	subcutaneous	permanent
Silicon	subcutaneous	permanent
Gore-Tex	subcutaneous	permanent
'Golden threads'	subcutaneous	permanent

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