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New approach in bid for fuller lips
This week’s blog post brings news from the United States of how some women are using cosmetic surgery to get the perfect pout.
A team from the Aesthetic Surgery Centre in Florida claim they have achieved good results in using muscles from a patients neck to perform a lip graft, making the lips appear fuller and less puckered.
The attempts to get fuller, more voluptuous lips has been a major part of cosmetic surgery on both sides of the Atlantic with many procedures being introduced since collagen injections in the 1980s. Actress Leslie Ash was a high profile casualty when she suffered a reaction to a lip filler injection and was widely ridiculed for her ‘trout pout’. Her lips have never been the same since.
Experts at the centre in Florida say the new procedure offers improved appearance for at least two years and claim that the surgery is simple and the recovery straightforward.
A more guarded response came from Douglas McGeorge, cosmetic surgeon and past president of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons. He said: “There are lots of ways to increase the volume of the lips. This is another way. It’s not necessarily any better, but it may give a more permanent result. However, further augmentations may be required. And as with any procedure, things can go wrong, although this is rare.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8567937.stm
A team from the Aesthetic Surgery Centre in Florida claim they have achieved good results in using muscles from a patients neck to perform a lip graft, making the lips appear fuller and less puckered.
The attempts to get fuller, more voluptuous lips has been a major part of cosmetic surgery on both sides of the Atlantic with many procedures being introduced since collagen injections in the 1980s. Actress Leslie Ash was a high profile casualty when she suffered a reaction to a lip filler injection and was widely ridiculed for her ‘trout pout’. Her lips have never been the same since.
Experts at the centre in Florida say the new procedure offers improved appearance for at least two years and claim that the surgery is simple and the recovery straightforward.
A more guarded response came from Douglas McGeorge, cosmetic surgeon and past president of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons. He said: “There are lots of ways to increase the volume of the lips. This is another way. It’s not necessarily any better, but it may give a more permanent result. However, further augmentations may be required. And as with any procedure, things can go wrong, although this is rare.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8567937.stm
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