NEW LIPS - For keeps, by Dr. Brueck, MD

This is one in a series of blog messages on the subject of cosmetic surgery and beauty, presented by Dr. Robert Brueck, MD, a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon practicing in Cape coral and Fort Myers, Florida. For more information about cosmetic procedures, see Dr. Brueck's web site at Beauty-by-Brueck.com

Many Hollywood stars tout their big beautiful luscious lips.

The look has become quite popular over the last several years. The mainstays to provide new and bigger lips have been injectible fillers such as Restylane, Juvederm and the like. One of the procedures I now do is a permanent lip implant that is tapered at both ends and has a very soft and natural appearance. It provides stable permanent lip enhancement. It is a simple, outpatient, 45-minute procedure that we usually do with sedation. No more painful injections and they last forever. Most of the fillers injected into the lips lasted 2 to 6 months and then the patients had to return for additional injections.

The newest and latest trend is “muscle grafting”.

In the journal, Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery, some doctors describe a technique that they have used on 25 patients to augment their lips.

What do they do? They take a piece of the patient’s neck muscle with the overlying fascia and implant it into their lips. This was done frequently in conjunction with a facelift. They say the pink show of the upper and lower lips has increased 20 to 24%.

Is it worth it? You be the judge. As with any cosmetic surgery it is only worth it, if it is important to you.

A New Filler - Fort Myers plastic surgeon Dr. Brueck comments

NEW FILLER - OBSERVATIONS FROM

DR. BRUECK

It seems every time I get up from bed there is a new filler/a new toy to tempt us to answer the needs of our patients.

The newest kid on the block is Hydrell/recently approved by the FDA.

It’s the newest Hyaluronic acid filler with anesthesia already in it.

The drug is manufactured by Anika Therapeutics and will be distributed in the U.S. by Coapt Systems. It is designed to fill in mid to deep dermis facial wrinkles and folds. It requires about 50% of the typical injection volume, meaning fewer injections to fill in those ugly, nasty facial wrinkles.

So far no word about when it will be released but I am sure there will soon be a new “knock on my door”.

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