Lip Augmentation
Conveniently located to serve Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Los Angeles, NYC, and Miami.
WHAT IS LIP AUGMENTATION?
QUALIFICATIONS
INNOVATOR + SCIENTIST+ ARTIST
BENEFITS
WHAT CAN LIP AUGMENTATION DO FOR MY LIPS?
- Increased lip volume
- A natural-looking lift
- Definition in the Cupid’s bow and lip borders
- Proper lip ratio and symmetry
- Hydrated lips
- Aesthetically upturned corners of the mouth
- Softened perioral lines, marionette lines, and nasolabial folds
- Enhanced chin projection
RIGHT FOR YOU?
WHO IS A GOOD CANDIDATE FOR LIP AUGMENTATION?
In general, healthy adults who want to plump, lift, and contour their lips are potential candidates for lip augmentation. However, the best way to find out if lip augmentation is right for you is to schedule a consultation with Dr. Emer.
After learning about your treatment goals and medical history and examining your facial structure and tissue, he will develop a protocol to best achieve your desired results. He is renowned for creating customized, combination facial sculpting treatments for his patients, and his approach to lip augmentation is no exception.
WHY FILLERS?
LIP AUGMENTATION WITH FILLERS
- Restore volume and plumpness
- Lift the corners of the mouth
- Refine the chin and jawline
- Smooth vertical lip lines
- Refine the Cupid’s bow and lip borders
- Improve symmetry
TYPES OF
LIP FILLERS
For lip augmentation, Dr. Emer uses hyaluronic acid (HA)-based fillers. HA fillers provide temporary enhancements that last from six to twelve months.
Dr. Emer has a thorough understanding of the dermal fillers currently available on the market, the benefits and disadvantages of each product, and how those fillers behave when injected. Upon conducting a formal evaluation, Dr. Emer can determine the best filler for your lips and the exact dose needed to achieve your aesthetic goals.
The dermal fillers Dr. Emer typically uses on the lips include:
FACIAL FAT GRAFTING FOR LIP AUGMENTATION
As a complement or alternative to dermal fillers, fat from the patient’s own body can be injected into the lips and throughout the face to create natural, long-term improvement in volume.
An autologous fat grafting procedure involves harvesting excess fat from a pre-determined area of the patient’s body. Dr. Emer insists on the use of a water-assisted fat extraction method to obtain the most viable fat cells. Next, the fat undergoes a comprehensive purification process.
Dr. Emer’s fat transfer process includes a unique step to ensure that you enjoy long-lasting, aesthetic results. Before injecting the purified fat, he enriches it with platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and growth factors from the patient’s own blood. PRP and growth factors work to encourage healthy cell regeneration.
Due to the fat extraction process, this treatment is more invasive than synthetic lip filler treatments. However, it can be ideal for patients who:
- Desire longer-lasting results – Fat injection results can last many years.
- Have a history of allergies – While synthetic dermal fillers are suitable for most patients, those with a history of allergies may not be the best candidates for lip fillers. With fat grafting, there is no risk of the body rejecting the injections since they consist of your body’s own tissue.
- Want to eliminate excess fat from another part of the body – For facial fat grafting, excess fat is typically harvested from the abdomen, arms, flanks, or buttocks. Patients benefit from improved contours at the extraction site, as well as achieving more shapely lips.
LIP THREAD LIFT
A lip thread lift is a non-surgical method of rejuvenating the mouth and lower face. The treatment is minimally invasive and takes about 30 minutes.
At the start of your lip thread lift procedure, a topical numbing cream is applied. Then, Dr. Emer inserts resorbable threads under the skin. He can then gently pull the threads upward to smooth out wrinkles and lines, tighten the skin, and define the lips.
Thread lifting not only addresses mild skin laxity in the lower face, it also works to encourage collagen production, which can provide instant and long-term improvements in the appearance of fine lines.
Dr. Emer uses NovaThreads and Silhouette InstaLift threads as an alternative or complement to lip fillers. A lip thread lift can be ideal for patients who:
- Have mild sagging and drooping skin around the mouth
- Desire long-term improvements in the strength and quality of their skin
- Predominantly want to refine the shape of the lips and reduce fine lip lines
- Do not want to add significant volume to the lips and instead prefer a subtle plumping effect
- Metabolize fillers quickly
Retreatment is typically needed after six to 12 months. In some cases, Dr. Emer performs small, touch-up thread inserts every three or four months for patients who want to maintain consistent results and ensure that fine lines are minimized.
LIP AUGMENTATION
Skill, experience, and a capacity for sharing your vision are extremely important when it comes to choosing who will perform your lip augmentation. Selecting a practitioner lacking in any of those categories can easily result in lips that look overdone, duck-like, unbalanced, or drastically different than expected.
As a board-certified cosmetic dermatologist and facial sculpting expert, Dr. Emer has exceptional technique, advanced knowledge of facial anatomy, and countless satisfied lip augmentation patients of all ages and ethnicities. Dr. Emer frequently combines lip augmentation procedures with complementary treatments to achieve unmatchable results for his patients.
When you choose Dr. Emer for lip augmentation in Beverly Hills, you receive a meticulously designed personalized treatment plan that addresses your unique concerns, incorporates preventative care, and aims to provide lasting results.
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RIGHT FOR YOU?
DR. EMER’S APPROACH TO LIP AUGMENTATION FOR WOMEN
Many of Dr. Emer’s lip augmentation patients are women who are dissatisfied with the natural size, shape, or definition of their lips. Soft fillers like Juvederm Volbella and Vollure, Revanesse Versa, Restylane Refyne, and Belotero are often ideal for short-term subtle plumping and contouring in these cases. Alternatively, fat grafting provides longer-lasting enhancement.
Many younger women desire to make the lips more prominent and full. To achieve voluminous lips that look natural yet can’t be missed, Dr. Emer may recommend Juvederm Ultra Plus, Juvederm Voluma, or Restylane Defyne.
Older women who are concerned about age-related volume loss in the lips, as well as wrinkles and drooping skin around the mouth, often benefit from a combination treatment that includes a lip thread lift and lip fillers. To further counter the effects of aging, Dr. Emer incorporates complementary collagen-stimulating therapy into lip augmentation treatment for older women.
DR. EMER’S APPROACH TO LIP AUGMENTATION FOR MEN
Dr. Emer is seeing more and more men who are looking for natural-looking enhancements to their signature features, including the lips. For his male patients, Dr. Emer focuses less on volume and more on lifting, shaping, and contouring.
Dr. Emer’s approach to lip augmentation for men involves sculpting the mid-face and lower face. He may use a cross-hatching technique to inject filler into the medial-lateral part of the cheek to lift the mid-face and improve facial harmony.
To enhance the lower face and create a more striking, masculine appearance, Dr. Emer often uses a microdroplet injection technique in the chin area and nasolabial folds. Softening the nasolabial folds and improving chin projection can provide the significant, yet subtle improvements that Dr. Emer’s male patients typically want to see in the lips and lower face.