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Hema Sundaram, MA, MD, FAAD
New Techniques For Healthy Lips, Jawline and Neck
Sundaram Dermatology, Cosmetic & Laser Surgery Center
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New Techniques For Healthy Lips, Jawline and Neck

New Techniques For Healthy Lips, Jawline and Neck

For the past year, our focus has shifted back from only what was above the mask to our whole faces again.  Now it’s time to think again about our lips, jawline and neck!

Lip enhancement has become notorious due to media images of celebrities with grossly enlarged “trout pouts.” However, when lips are rejuvenated properly, the results are subtle, stunningly beautiful, and can harmonize your whole face. This approach gives you lips that fit your face, rather than duck lips.

The key is to see an expert dermatologist or plastic surgeon who knows how to restore youthful lip shape and contours – and, equally importantly, can rejuvenate the skin around your mouth with the newest nonsurgical options. New procedures can give you superb, natural-looking results, soften lip wrinkles, and make you look more relaxed and healthy.

As we age, our lips lose volume and become thinner. Volume loss from the skin around our lips flattens the Cupid’s bow, turns the lips inwards, and causes pucker lines. These can be worsened by smoking, habitual waxing of hair from around the lips, and even by frequent gum-chewing or sipping drinks through a straw. Overactive muscles turn the corners of your mouth downward, creating the appearance of frowning even when happy.

Scars around the mouth due to acne or other skin problems become more noticeable as the skin ages and loses elasticity. We may also notice increased growth of coarse hairs on the upper lip and chin due to hormonal shifts. Adult acne can also worsen, especially after wearing a mask, causing deep, tender cysts around the mouth and chin.

What Can Be Done To Address These Concerns?

A new technique of lip rejuvenation, based on expert knowledge of facial anatomy, is to gently inject innovative, softer fillers like Volbella, Belotero or Restylane Silk, in combination with firmer fillers like Voluma, Restylane or Juvederm to support the chin and lower face. These fillers are all pure biosynthetic forms of the hyaluronic acid that’s naturally present in the skin and gets lost with age. It’s critical to use expert techniques, to restore lip volume and shape, precisely turn out the lip borders, and re-define the Cupid’s bow. This prevents lipstick bleeding and gives beautiful results.

With the right techniques, there is usually little or no swelling, regular activities can be resumed immediately, and the results looks completely natural. Injection of fillers with French cannulas instead of sharp needles is an advanced technique that can eliminate or minimize bruising.

Tiny amounts of muscle re-balancers (neuromodulators) like Botox, Dysport, Jeuveau, Xeomin or Daxxify can be injected virtually painlessly just beneath the skin to relax overactive muscles that pucker the skin around the mouth and turn the corners down. This highly skilled technique should only be performed by a very experienced dermatologist or plastic surgeon. It can dramatically improve appearance and help prevent lines and wrinkles from deepening.

What About the Neck and Jawline?

To get your jawline and neck in shape for spring and summer, one important laser is Ultherapy, which non-surgically lifts and re-contours the jawline and neck, cheeks, and brows in just one session with no down time. Ultherapy can also lift buttocks, knees, arms, chest skin and other sagging areas. The Exilis Ultra is a revolutionary laser that combines ultrasound with radiofrequency to remove fat and tighten skin at the same time in areas such as the jawline, arms, abdomen, waistline, buttocks, thighs and other areas. Exilis Ultra is painless and has no recovery time. It can be combined with laser resurfacing to improve wrinkles, discolorations and scars and tighten the skin, all with little or no down time. Exilis Ultra can also improve cellulite and stretch marks. Fraxel, CO2RE or eMatrix sublative fractional laser resurfacing, Vitalize and Rejuvenize chemical peels and the ViPeel remove sun spots and stimulate your skin to produce new collagen, fading wrinkles and scars and leaving your skin smoother, tighter and more radiant.

The newest treatment for acne, scarring and fine lines is to combine sessions of Dermasweep-MD, a medical-strength, aluminum-free skin exfoliation and hydration, with acne laser therapy. Dermasweep polishes your skin with different levels of medical exfoliation and infuses it with natural fruit acids, while laser therapy kills the bacteria that cause acne, giving you a longer-term solution.

The Gentle YAG (GentleMax Pro) hair laser is the most advanced and powerful method for rapid and painless removal of unwanted hair. It is safe and for skin of all types, from the very fairest to the very darkest. At the same time, it can also tighten skin and give a beautiful skin glow.

How To Get The Best and Most Natural Looking Results

For best results, trust your face and body to a board-certified dermatologist or plastic surgeon who is expert in the latest techniques and understands how to combine and customize them to make you look and feel your best for summer. 

Dermatologists, plastic, oculoplastic and facial plastic surgeons are the only specialists recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties as having achieved the appropriate level of training and qualifications to be performing cosmetic procedures.

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