Facial Filler with Botox for Lip Lines

 

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Facial Filler with Botox for Lip Lines by Peter T. Pacik, MD, FACS Botox is now being used in combination with facial fillers, such as Restylane, Radiesse and fat grafting, to help eliminate wrinkles and furrows. The following patient is a good example of the benefit of combining Botox with a facial filler. Lip lines developed as a result of overactive muscles around the mouth (photograph top right). The lips have thinned with age. Botox was used to reduce the hyperactivity. Only 2 injections, one on each side of the lip, was used to help quiet the muscles but not enough to develop lip droop. Radiesse was injected for volume replacement of both the upper lip and the early marionette lines (depressions in the corner of the mouth). By having less muscular activity (photograph bottom right), the facial filler can be expected to last longer. The photographs below are at one month. Her photos at one month show better fullness of the lips, marked improvement of the corners of the mouth and near eradication of the lip lines. In photograph below, the lip is paler on her right side as well as a small central zone where some of the radiesse can be seen through the lip. This will disappear with time.

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