Lip Reduction
Although most patients are interested in augmenting their lips, some patients are interested in making their lips smaller. This is more common in certain ethnic or racial groups and is popular with...
View ArticleHyaluronidase to Dissolve Unwanted Lip and Wrinkle Filler
If you are old enough to have filler injections you are probably old enough to remember the scene from the movie “The First Wives Club” where Goldie Hawn gets lip injections and ends up with...
View ArticleLip Reduction:Sometimes Needles are Not Enough
A lot of attention gets paid to lip enlargement but there are a large number of patients that aren’t interested! Contemporary cosmetic surgeons and practitioners are well aware of the art and science...
View ArticleLip Reduction Surgery; Estimating the Amount of Reduction
Dr. Joe Niamtu, III, cosmetic facial surgeon, Richmond, Virginia (www.lovethatface.com) has lectured and published on lip reduction surgery and frequently performs the procedure. One of the most common...
View ArticleVideo showing Dr. Niamtu performing Lip Reduction after Overdone Fat Injection
The video below shows Dr. Niamtu removing excess fat in the upper and lower lip from fat injection done by another surgeon. This video shows actual surgical footage and may offend those sensitive to...
View ArticleVideo showing Dr. Niamtu performing Caucasian Lip Reduction
Although most lip reductions are performed on non-Caucasian patients, there are patients of every race that desire to have smaller lips. The video below shows a bloodless laser lip reduction on a...
View ArticleVideo showing Dr. Niamtu performing Bloodless Lip Reduction with the Lumenis...
The lips are extremely vascular and bleed very easy during surgery. The more bleeding there is, the harder it is to do the surgery and bleeding also causes increased pain, swelling and recovery....
View ArticleVideo showing Dr. Niamtu demonstrating how the amount of tissue to be removed...
In the video below Dr. Niamtu explains the process he uses to determine the amount of tissue that needs to be removed to achieve the patients’ desired lip size.
View ArticleDr. Niamtu writes about Lip Reduction
Dr. Niamtu had the honor of publishing a textbook chapter in Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America on Lip Reduction. Dr. Niamtu J. Lip reduction surgery (reduction cheiloplasty). Facial...
View ArticleHemangioma: A Benign Tumor of Blood Vessels
A hemangioma is a benign tumor of blood vessels. Most hemangiomas are harmless although some can be associated with vital organs and be serious. Small hemangiomas can be removed with lasers but...
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