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A skin strap of a needed width is cut off closely above the red, the red is extended up on the place where the skin strap was cut off. Although the smoothest injection and stitches are used, the patient has to hope the scars will be invisible, or only less visible.

The marks of the intervention stay everytime, depends on individuality. Everyone has a visible white line etween the red and the lip which make the contrast. And after the intervention the contrast isn´t so visible anymore and a patient should know it.

A permanent make-up – the tattooed contour of lips by pigmented color – save the situation. It will last 3 – 5 years, according to the quality of skin. This is provided in tattoo saloons or in bigger comestic saloons. The price is 2 – 3 tousends crowns.

Some women with full lips look as their lips blend with face. They are missing the contour. It is possible to create it by the surgical way, but never by collagen. It is used to fill it up, to increase its wolume.

The using of collagen is disputable, although it has some advantages and simple application. The source of collagen is beef-cattle. It is not so good in the time of BSE. Practicaly it is used from skin of young calfs and the BSE afflict the beef-cattle that is older than two years. And the method of processing by the production of collagen doesn´t allow to any microorganisms to stay alive. The official declaration of specialists says the method is safety.

A Russian girl has visited Slovakia and she wanted her breasts to increase by using Artecoll. Because she has read it and so she know it is possible! If it was possible, she would pay 5 – 6 millions crowns only for substance. Practically it would not be possible.

In fact, what is collagen? A substance of an albuminous character, which is mostly in human skin in the form of collagen fibres. It is created from the skin of animals.

Resoplast, the collagen that can be absorbed may be used for smoothing of wrinkles or for increasing of lips, but the result is only temporal. The wrinkles will appear again, lips will decrease again into its previous form and size.

Artecoll the collagen with addition of microacryl, it stays on the place all life long. But it is not so good, because if a woman or a girl doesn´t get accustomed to big lips, it can´t be removed.

The organism degrades the collagen and on the holder join its own collagen tissue. The principle is the change of the strange collagen with the own one, which body is accustomed to.

The Artecoll which a surgeon works with, is expensive. It is a fact. A half “cubic“ of Artecoll costs around 10 000 crowns (and the prises rise). And so it is applied only on small surfaces.

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.