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| Lip Augmentation: Who Is a Candidate? |
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Unlike some other plastic surgery procedures, nearly anyone can be a candidate for lip augmentation. Especially today, while having fuller, "poutier" lips is in style, more people are considering lip enhancement procedures, not only to puff up their mouths, but also to correct any asymmetries or crookedness.
Men and women, teenagers, twentysomethings and octogenarians all are eligible for a lip augmentation procedure. Up to 40 percent of lip augmentation patients under 35 choose to have their lips surgically enhanced if they have "underdeveloped" thin, flat - lips. People over age 50 account for about 60 percent of lip augmentation patients because as we age, muscles have less tone and tissues begin to thin.
Though anyone can be a candidate for any of the injection, graft or local flaps procedures, it is important to note that local flaps is the most invasive of all the techniques, and its results are the most permanent.
If you believe that lip augmentation is for you, make sure the doctor you select is a board-certified plastic surgeon. Discuss the procedure, its risks and benefits with the physician you choose and be certain you are comfortable with him/her.
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