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Lip Lift With Dr. Marie Noland | Langley, BC
A thin, flat, or elongated upper lip can compromise your smile and affect the harmony among your facial features. In the past, the most popular lip enhancement method was injecting a hyaluronic acid-based gel into the lips. While the results are aesthetically pleasing, they only last about six months before needing a touch-up, and they can’t always produce the desired results.
Fortunately, an elegant surgical solution that offers long-lasting and tailored results. A lip lift is an aesthetic procedure that decreases the distance between your nose and upper lip, giving your smile a more youthful and alluring appearance.
A lip lift involves careful consideration of the facial features as a whole to create balanced, cohesive results. Board-certified and double fellowship-trained plastic surgeon Dr. Marie Noland uses her advanced medical training, artistic vision, and specialized techniques to deliver nuanced lip lifts that accentuate her patients’ innate beauty.
Schedule your lip lift consultation with Dr. Noland in Langley, BC, and learn more about how she customizes this procedure to define and accentuate your smile. Dr. Marie Noland is a plastic surgeon based in Surrey, BC, proudly serving patients seeking facial, breast, body, and non-surgical treatments throughout Langley, Abbotsford, Delta, Walnut Grove, Maple Ridge, White Rock, and the greater Vancouver area.
What Is a Lip Lift?
A lip lift is a customized facial aesthetic procedure that freshens and accentuates your smile, with results that are longer-lasting than what dermal fillers can deliver. It can correct a thin, elongated, or flattened upper lip that hides your teeth.
During this surgery, Dr. Noland removes a small piece of skin beneath the nose, decreasing the space between the nose and the upper lip. The careful excision process rolls the upper lift upward, exposing more of the pink inside your lips for an aesthetically pleasing and feminine contour. It can also make your lips look fuller, plumper, and younger.
Dr. Noland will carefully measure your lips to ensure a balanced, personalized, and cohesive outcome. The surgery usually requires around one hour and takes place under local anesthesia.
What Are the Benefits of a Lip Lift in Surrey, BC?
A full, defined upper lip offers a variety of benefits to the rest of your facial features, including:
- Gives a more feminine and youthful appearance to your lips
- Increases the colored portion of the upper lip
- Improves the visibility of your smile
- Creates symmetry and defines a Cupid’s bow
- Achieves a more lifted smile by raising the corners of the mouth
- Plumps and volumizes the lips without introducing an artificial substance
- Rejuvenates and creates balance among your facial features
What to Expect From a Lip Lift With Dr. Noland?
Upon arriving at our office on the day of your procedure, a member of our care team will take you to a private suite. Dr. Noland will inject a local anesthetic into your upper lip and directly under your nose, ensuring your comfort throughout your surgery. Once the area has gone completely numb, Dr. Noland will begin the procedure by creating an incision just underneath your nose. This discreet location allows the resulting scar to be less visible after healing. Dr. Noland skillfully removes a small strip of skin, then closes the incision with sutures.
Are You a Candidate for a Lip Lift in Langley, BC?
Most people are good candidates for a lip lift procedure, but you are particularly well-suited if your upper lip thins when you smile or you feel that your smile shows too much of your upper gums. As with other surgical procedures, Dr. Noland requires her patients to be non-smokers, as tobacco and nicotine can lead to infection and adversely impact the recovery process by slowing circulation. Additionally, the best surgical lip lift candidates are in good all-around health and have realistic expectations for their results.
During your personalized consultation with Dr. Noland, she will ask you questions about your aesthetic goals, explain the procedural details, and give you an example of the potential outcome. She takes this time to get to know you, including what you love about your appearance and what you would like to change, so she can tailor a treatment plan for your specific requirements.
Schedule A Consultation
Enrich your natural beauty and honour the person that you already are. Schedule a consultation with Dr. Marie Noland for a customized approach to reaching your aesthetic goals.
What Is the Difference Between a Lip Lift and Lip Injections?
Lip Lift
Lip lift surgery is an ideal solution for people with a long, sagging upper lip. It targets the space from the bottom of the nose to the upper edge of the colored portion of the lip. As collagen production and lip volume decrease with age, the upper lip begins to elongate, causing the top lip to roll under and appear thinner. An elongated upper lip can obscure your teeth when you smile. A lip lift shortens this space and slightly flips the colored portion of the top lift outward, creating a subtle, natural-looking pout that appears fuller than before.
Lip Injections
Non-surgical lip injections use various dermal fillers or a fat transfer using fat cells harvested from your body. Injecting hyaluronic acid-based gel or fat can create fullness, smooth lines and wrinkles, and turn the corners of your mouth upward. Lip augmentation with fillers or fat transfer is an efficient and safe way to increase your lip volume and improve the shape and contour of your smile.
Combination of Both
Some patients benefit from a combination of both procedures. The surgical lip lift will shorten the white part of the upper lip and roll the pink inner part up and out, while lip fillers or fat transfer further enhances the results.
Lip Lift Recovery in in Surrey, BC
Immediately following a lip lift, you can expect your upper lip to be swollen and sore. Dr. Noland will place bandages over the incision, and you’ll need to keep it clean and protected with antibacterial ointment for the first week or so.
While your body heals, rest when you feel tired and do not push yourself to do anything strenuous. Anything that makes you sweat along your upper lip can lead to infection. The initial healing period generally requires two to three weeks, with the ultimate outcome appearing after about three months.
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Schedule Your Lip Lift Consultation With Dr. Noland Today
To learn more about a lip lift procedure, schedule your private consultation with Dr. Noland in Langley, BC. We look forward to meeting you soon!
