Renova plastic surgery clinic
Bullhorn
(correction of the upper lip)
Cheiloplasty is a surgical plastic surgery of the lips in order to correct congenital or acquired (after injuries) lip defects,
change the shape and size of the lips, as well as correct the surrounding area.
An open and attractive smile disposes people to us, helps to solve many problems in life.
But if nature has not gifted a person with the appropriate shape of the lips and the smile is not quite as we would like -
plastic surgery will help.
There are three types of cheiloplasty: aesthetic, reconstructive, reduction.
Reconstructive cheiloplasty eliminates the following problems:
Reconstructive cheiloplasty is resorted to when aesthetic cheiloplasty does not give the desired prolonged results or imperfections in the lip area are significant and require more drastic measures.
Reduction cheiloplasty involves lip reduction and is recommended for unsuccessful lip augmentation in the past.
Bullhorn (bull's horn literally translated as "bull horns") is a technique for excising part of the skin in the area between the red border of the lips and the base of the nose, which allows you to raise the upper lip and thus make it more voluminous and expressive. This name was given to the surgical method due to the fact that the excised flap of the skin is similar in outline to bull horns. The main indication for this operation is the distance from the nose to the edge of the upper lip, exceeding 12-15 mm. The indicator may exceed this value, which indicates either the congenital anatomy of the face, or the effect of gravitational forces on the tissues. As a result, the upper lip drops inward and visually looks narrower.
Indications for surgery by the Bullhorn method are:
Contraindications to the intervention:
A plastic surgeon can determine the need for surgical intervention at a face-to-face consultation after diagnosing the patient's anatomical capabilities, establishing the likely aesthetic effectiveness and identifying the presence or absence of contraindications in the patient.
Type of anesthesia
Cheiloplasty can be performed under sedation (intravenous administration of a sedative) or under local local anesthesia. The choice of anesthesia method depends on the duration and volume of surgical actions, on the physiological characteristics of the patient's body and the recommendations of the operating doctor.
Duration of surgery: 1 hour.
The operation does not require the patient to be in the hospital, he can immediately go home. In the postoperative period (the first 7-14 days), swelling of tissues, bleeding, redness, pain and there is a risk of hematomas can be observed. During this period, subject to all the recommendations of the surgeon, the skin grows together, the postoperative scar itself is completely regenerated after 2 months.
The patient after cheiloplasty should:
The final result of cheiloplasty can be assessed 3 months after the intervention. Correction of the upper lip and the area above it using injection methods (contour plastics and lipofilling) give a result limited by the timing of the introduction of the drug (filler or own fatty material) in the patient's body. As a rule, fillers are excreted by the lymphatic system after 6-10 months, own adipose tissue - after 10-24 months. The effectiveness after surgery persists for decades and in rare cases, patients resort to repeated correction.
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