Can I Get Upper Lip Lateral Vermilion Advancements and Lip Curls Done At The Same Time?

Q: Dr. Eppley,  I saw your corner mouth widening, and i want to ask you if you perform a corner lip lifting (outer parts of vermillion border) combined with corner mouth lifing, i hope you do that and would like to know how much it would be, i would come from Italy, thanks in advance.

A:Thank you for your inquiry and sending your pictures. First, a sub nasal lip lift is a central upper lip procedure and will not make any changes to the outer mouth corners as you have noted. Secondly the results from another patient you have shown are known as lip curls, a significantly upturned mouth corner which is very popular in Asia but not here in the western world. Thirdly what you are demonstrating manually on your outer lip is a lateral vermilion advancement which is the only effective way to increase the outer third of the lip vermilion fullness and raise the mouth corner to some degree. Can you combine a lateral vermilion advancement with lip curls?  No, as the basis of achieving a lip curl is that the lateral vermilion medial to it is stable so you have a platform on which to turn it from.

Dr. Barry Eppley

Plastic Surgeon