Lip augmentation with hyaluronic acid: technique, effect and consequences of the procedure

Lip augmentation with hyaluronic acid (biorevitalization) is a common trend in cosmetology, the purpose of which is to enlarge the lips and correct age-related changes. This technique is carried out using a laser and injections. After the administration of the latter, side effects sometimes develop, which, if the recommendations for recovery are followed, quickly disappear.

Before the procedure, you should consult your doctor to rule out any contraindications. It is important that biorevitalization is performed by a certified specialist using drugs that have undergone research, since complications may arise if the rules are not followed or the quality of the products used is poor.

What results can you expect after lip augmentation?

Lip augmentation by injection of fillers based on hyaluronic acid allows you to solve several aesthetic problems in a matter of minutes:

• Increase volume.
• Eliminate dryness and flaking.
• Correct asymmetry.

Here it is important to understand how long it takes for lips to heal after augmentation: on average 5-10 days. It is recommended to finally evaluate the result after 2 weeks.

When the recovery period passes, the lips will become moisturized and attractive, while maintaining their natural mobility and sensitivity.

Complications

Complications can also be more serious. Before agreeing to a lip augmentation procedure with hyaluronic acid, you need to know that there may be more serious consequences than redness or a slight bruise.

Such complications include:

1. Lumps and nodules after the procedure, as well as bumps on the lips after hyaluronic acid.
2. Serious deformation of the lips, which leads to asymmetry.
3. Constant itching that doesn't want to stop.

Lumps and nodules on the lips

Lumps in the lip area occur very rarely. The main reason is related to the hypersensitivity of the body. However, if a woman has such problems, she should know about it in advance and refuse plastic surgery.

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There are other risk factors:

1. If balls and bumps appear immediately after the procedure, this indicates that the cosmetologist injected the drug deeply enough
2. This happens if you introduce too much hyaluronic acid in one procedure.
3. In the case when nodules, balls and other formations appear after several days or weeks, this is evidence of inflammation, since the body does not always accept foreign fluids.

Allergy to hyaluronic acid

Allergy to hyaluronic acid is rare, but does occur.

What to do if the procedure has been done, but lumps still appear in the lips after hyaluronic acid:

1. In principle, such formations disperse on their own, so there is no need to panic and sound the alarm ahead of time.
2. Lumps should resolve faster if you massage at home .
3. If the formation does not go away for a long time, then it is treated with more effective methods. For example, using injections that help remove excess hyaluronic acid from the body.
4. As soon as lumps are noticed, you should contact a cosmetologist and be under his supervision for some time.

Lip deformity

Severe deformation of the lips significantly impairs their function and mobility, and spoils the patient’s appearance. To prevent this from happening, there is no need to overestimate the capabilities of medicine and the attending physician.

Many women who want to enlarge their lips as quickly as possible ask to administer more of the drug than necessary. In most cases, this causes the effect of lips swollen to incredible sizes. This may also occur due to the fact that the patient tensed her lips excessively during the procedure. Incorrect administration of the drug by an inexperienced doctor also occurs.

What to do if your lips are too swollen after augmentation with hyaluronic acid? In this case, the patient has no choice but to consult a doctor again and agree to a series of operations to correct her own lips. There is no point in waiting for them to return to normal on their own.

Constant itching

Itching after a lip augmentation procedure can occur if there is a serious infection. If the itching is quite mild and can be tolerated, then the doctor recommends waiting and observing yourself for a few more days. But if the itching does not stop, but only becomes stronger, then the patient may be prescribed a course of antibiotics to completely prevent infection.

Possible consequences of lip augmentation with hyaluronic acid

To enlarge the lips, the cosmetologist injects the drug to a depth of approximately 3-4 ml. Fillers based on hyaluronic acid are biocompatible and absolutely safe, because... it is produced by our body. The risk of any complications is minimal.

What you might encounter:

• Individual intolerance and allergic reactions.
• Edema.
  This is a normal reaction of the body to intervention. It goes away within a few days.
• Bruise.
  It is not dangerous and also goes away within a few days.
• Lumps in the lips.
  They may arise if the patient does not comply with the recommendations of the cosmetologist after the procedure. Less often due to a specialist error during the procedure.

Knowing what you can and cannot do after lip augmentation , you will avoid unpleasant consequences and shorten the recovery period.

Consequences that are considered normal

Since the procedure never goes smoothly and painlessly, you need to prepare in advance for minor complications that are considered normal:

1. Small hematomas.
2. Redness.
3. Minor swelling.

Small hematomas

Bruising on the lips after hyaluronic acid is normal. Of course, the procedure is carried out using special needles, the thickness of which is no more than 0.3 millimeters, however, the consequences often cannot be avoided.

Lip augmentation with hyaluronic acid is a widespread procedure, usually very easily tolerated by patients. However, in some cases complications arise after this manipulation.

Short-term swelling, redness, and bruising are common consequences of injections.

Necrosis, lumps and nodules in the thickness of the lips, and the development of allergic reactions are considered more severe. Often after injections, labial herpes is activated.

The main reason for the formation of hematomas is the inexperience of the cosmetologist, so the more he works in this area, the greater the patient’s chances of remaining without bruises. Before deciding on such a procedure, you need to make inquiries about the chosen doctor and make sure that his inexperience will not cause harm.

It is important to carry out lip contouring only from a doctor, and not from a cosmetologist-esthetician, since knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of tissues in such a sensitive and delicate area is required.
It is also important to follow all recommendations.

Dermatovenerologist, cosmetologist

Zhikhoreva Inna Viktorovna

6 years experience

The doctor must know the anatomy of the face well and inject the drug into those areas where the fewest capillaries are located. Even if bruises appear, the doctor should explain to the patient that this is not temporary and that they should disappear in about 3 days.

In addition, the cosmetologist is obliged to tell you how to properly care for such formations, recommend ointments and masks, and warn against going to the bathhouse, sauna, beach, or pool.

It is important to know: if the bruises have not gone away within 3-4 days, if you feel pain when you press on your lips, this is a serious reason to start worrying.

Redness

Redness is a necessary consequence of the procedure. It disappears quite quickly, literally within the next day.

Hyaluronic acid and collagen

Collagen and hyaluronic acid are the main components in the human body that are directly involved in the processes of maintaining youth and health of the skin, hair and joints.

This phenomenon is also inevitable with contour plastic surgery. However, you should not leave the process to chance; you need to carefully care for your skin:

1. Apply a piece of ice wrapped in a soft cloth to the area of ​​swelling. Wrapping is mandatory so as not to cause cold burns.
2. If the swelling does not go away for a long time, this indicates that too much and some of it will have to be neutralized using a special drug. Only a cosmetologist should inject it under the skin.
3. Avoid large amounts of salty foods and drinking alcoholic beverages. Abstaining from them helps reduce the swelling process.

What not to do after lip augmentation

A cosmetologist will definitely tell you how to care for your lips after the procedure. Compliance with the recommendations is especially important during the first two weeks, because... this greatly affects the result.

It is forbidden:

• Take a hot bath, shower.
• Visit the sauna, bathhouse, solarium.
• Drink hot drinks.
• Take medications that affect blood clotting.
• Drink alcohol and smoke.
• Paint.
• Apply creams and ointments. Exception: those recommended by the cosmetologist after the procedure.
• Actively move your lips - stretch, press, stretch, strain, open your mouth wide, etc.
• Visit the dentist.
• Press on lips.
• Engage in sports and heavy physical activity.
• Touch surfaces with your lips that you are not sure are clean, because... high risk of infection.
• Kiss.

Indications, contraindications and possible complications

Cosmetologists identify a number of indications and limitations for injection and laser biorevitalization:

The disadvantages of the procedure are related to the fact that after the administration of hyaluronic acid, the papules can resolve within several days. This causes side effects: the injections are visible in the form of dots and small tubercles. After the procedure, vasodilation occurs, which is reflected in redness and swelling. These effects go away on their own within a week.

Possible complications are associated with violation of the technique of the procedure. The doctor may accidentally damage a blood vessel with the needle. Against this background, bleeding develops and a subcutaneous hematoma (bruise) appears. It disappears on its own after a few days. If the gel is not distributed correctly, the patient may experience lip asymmetry. If laser lip augmentation is performed, then such consequences are not observed.

Gymnastics

Gymnastics is appropriate only after complete recovery. Not earlier than 2 weeks after the injection.

How to do:

• Pull your lips out with a tube.
• Stretch as wide as possible.
• Compress.
• Sing vowel sounds.

Gymnastics are performed 2-3 times a day for 3-4 minutes. A specialist will show you specific exercises.

How long does the result last?

The results last from several weeks to several years. On average from 4 to 18 months.

Duration depends on:

• individual characteristics,
• the chosen drug,
• compliance with the recommendations of a cosmetologist,
• number of procedures (the result of each subsequent procedure lasts longer).

Features of the enlargement procedure

Of the entire range of techniques for improving the line and volume of lips, hyaluronate is the leader. This is a natural component responsible for retaining water in cells. With age, acid production decreases and skin turgor decreases.

To give the lips an aesthetically attractive appearance, the cosmetologist begins several stages of therapy:

• Analysis of the client's health status and wishes.
• No contraindications.
• Selection of injection technique.
• Anesthesia (numbing cream or injections).
• Injections.
• Relieving swelling.
• Recommendations (time of correction, methods of care).

Hyaluronic acid is used to improve the contour of the face, the volume of the cheekbones and eliminate facial wrinkles. Pharmacy displays offer a wide selection of fillers, the most popular and safest drug from a Swedish company is Restylane. Using a syringe with a thin needle, the gel is injected into the layers of the dermis, increasing its elasticity and stimulating the production of natural collagen.