Lips extension - collagen
The extension of lips by using collagen.
A 29-year-old woman – cosmetician – was operated two years ago. She had been using a pencil to make the contours of her lips voluminous. The upper lip was too thin and the permanent make-up didn´t help. The decision was made from one day to another.
Although she is afraid of injections she let her lips beeing cut and increased. During the consultation she found out that it will be enough when a cubic centimeter of collagen will be injected into the upper lip.
At first the alergy test was necessary. You can´t never say how will be the reaction of body on a foreign substance. Whether it will accept it or refuse it. So the surgeon injected her a little bit of collagen into her arm and after some time she came on the control. There was not any unwanted reaction and so she made a term with a surgeon. The operation took less than one hour. After the anaesthesia the surgeon injected her a half of “cubic“ into the left part and a half of “cubic“ into the right part of upper lip and he massaged it softly. The woman came home as a duck. The lower lip was normal, the upper lip was filled by collagen and also swollen. By the morning it became blue.
After a week these changes disappeared and the result was visible.
“I should have done it long ago“, she said everytime, as she was chceking her new lips in a mirror. The first day she used a straw when she was drinking and she could eat only slurry meal and she felt small “balls“ in the lip – Artecoll. It was impossible for her to connect the lips so that they could tighten. The collagen in the form of small balls she felt for next several months.
The woman had a small space between her upper lip and nose so this way – collagen – was the best way how to increase the upper lip. Later she let the contour of her lips beeing tattooed by a pigment color and so she was sutisfied completely.
The amount of collagen may be used again and the lips may be increased step by step. It isn´t good to inject collagen or another substance in the bigger amount at once. The lip is sensitive and it is swollen during the operation. So the patient can´t say during the intervention whether it is enough or whether she wants more collagen. Because the picture in a mirror isn´t the real picture.
Tags: collagen, collagen injections, lips, lips extension, operation