Archive for the ‘Lip Augmentation / Lip Fillers / Lip Injections / Lip Reduction / Lip Grafts / Lip Advancements / Fat Injections of the Lip’ Category

Why are the lips are so important for aesthetics?

Tuesday, February 28th, 2017

The Lips and their impact on Beauty:

Why are the lips so important for your looks? Why is it that they have such an impact after you enhance them with fillers like with Kylie Jenner?

Kylie Jenner Lip Filler Enhancements

Kylie Jenner Lip Filler Enhancements

The lips are the entrance to the mouth. The mouth is one of the first functioning units that we had as we started as a single cell. Basically, the first thing we did was eat things and engulf things as cells do. So the lips are a very primitive part of our body. Also the lips are associated with many of our emotions. The audio cortex and our sensation of hearing has a big impact on our emotional interpretation of the world. The lips are the way we communicate many of our emotions like yelling, talking, kissing etc. The lips represent some of our most basic elements about us. It is our animalistic side of our bodies and face. This is the reason why when we augment them there is such an impact on our sexuality and hence our looks and appearance.

In terms of Lips, Lip Fillers and how they fit into beauty. You can watch this video that will come out on Wed 3/1/17 and learn more about the aesthetics of the lips. When I was in LA I noticed that there are many people getting their lips enhanced and they were looking enhanced but not necessarily improved. So I wanted to figure out why that was. When I looked into our Aesthetics and understanding of beauty in the most current literature, I found that we really didn’t know concrete facts or numbers on what is beautiful or not. That’s what led me to figure out what beautiful was and a Basic theory on beauty. The lips were important for me in recognizing that we needed to do something. So I started looking around and studying beautiful people and I started to write a paper that set forth some basic mathematics above what beautiful is. Look at yourself or other people or other pictures of faces and you’ll see that most of the light shines on the lower lips. hence the lower lips need to dominate because the light shines on it. I have hypothesized that the lower lips are ideally one Iris width in height . The upper lips were half an iris width in height. In my third paper, I went on to further prove this. You’ll see in these two studies below that this was found to be true. Importantly, the chairman of the statistics dept from the University of California Riverside helped with the statistics in this paper. Click here for our paper on these studies: The Circles of Prominence, A New Theory on Beauty: Ideal Distances in the Eyes, Nose, Ears, and Lips.

Line Drawings: Lower Lip was Found to Be Ideally 1 iris width in Height

Line Drawings: Lower Lip was Found to Be Ideally 1 iris width in Height

 

Morphed Actual Real Life Pictures: The Lower Lip is Ideally One Iris Width in Height

Morphed Actual Real Life Pictures: The Lower Lip is Ideally One Iris Width in Height

 

Line Drawings: Upper Lip was Found to Be Ideally 1/2 iris width in Height

Line Drawings: Upper Lip was Found to Be Ideally 1/2 iris width in Height

 

Morphed Real Life Pictures: Upper Lip was Found to Be Ideally 1/2 Iris Width in Height

Morphed Real Life Pictures: Upper Lip was Found to Be Ideally 1/2 Iris Width in Height

 

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Dr. Philip Young

We are Revamping our YouTube Channel. We are the “Beauty Docs” and we want you to Get a Glimpse of our Lives in Plastic Surgery in 60second Video

Wednesday, September 28th, 2016

We are Revamping our YouTube Channel. We are the “Beauty Docs” and we want you to Get a Glimpse of our Lives in Plastic Surgery in 60second Video

See us on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/user/drphilipyoung. We have decided to take on as our new YouTube nickname of “The Beauty Docs”. We thought this would be the best way to represent us because we have a theory on beauty that helps us get the best results. I just got my 3rd paper accepted by the American Journal of Cosmetic Surgery on this topic. Please watch our newest video called “A Glimpse into our Lives in Plastic Surgery in 60 secs Video“. We feature an eyelift, facelift, browlift, and upper lip lift.

Below is a transcript for our Video

This plastic surgery video will help you get a glimpse into our lives and what we do in plastic surgery in 60 secs. Hi This is Dr Philip Young and we’re the Beauty Docs on YouTube We would love to have you subscribe to our channel. This first clip is the Buffalo Gull Wing Upper Lip Lift Surgery To Improve the appearance of your upper lips. You can shorten the distance between your nose and lips and make your upper lips larger for an all around more beautiful look. This next video show us doing a facelift and we are showing the deep plane under the SMAS. The deep Plane can help make your facelift results last much longer. This video clips shows us doing an upper eyelid lift. The upper eyelid lift is relatively minimally invasive and can have a dramatic impact on your looks. This next segment shows us doing a browlift. I’m releasing the tough attachments near the brow to allow the eyebrow to be raised higher for more of an awake, happier and approachable look. Click the top right corner and subscribe to us on YouTube. Thanks for watching

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Lip Augmentation Options Seattle Bellevue

Friday, August 5th, 2016

Lip Augmentation Options Seattle Bellevue:

Having big lips can be really important for someone’s looks. Big doesn’t mean that increasing the size is going to do it all. You have to know the aesthetics. Based on Dr. Young’s Theory on Beauty. The upper lips should be 1/2 the colored part of the eye or iris. The lower lips should be 1 Iris Width.  You can click here and read more about Dr. Young’s Theory on Beauty.  The width of the pucker is also important. If you follow the links you can read more about Dr. Young’s theory. Essentially the pucker should be about the same width as the width of the eye. Why is the lips so important to aesthetics. The lips are the entrance to the mouth and oral cavity. It is associated with many elements of humans animalistic part of the body. The lips and mouth are associated with eating, yelling, biting, i.e. some of the most primitive elements of our body’s. When you enhance the lips you enhance someone’s animal sexuality.

There are temporary and permanent options. The main option for temporary lip augmentation are fillers. Permanent options include Permalip Silicone Implants, Lip VY Advancement, Lip Lifts, and Fat injections. you can click here to read more about these options: Lip Injections Augmentation of Seattle Bellevue.

Thanks,
Dr Philip Young and our Team at Aesthetic Facial Body Plastic Surgery

Lip Augmentation Options and what is best for you

Wednesday, January 21st, 2015

Transgender facial feminization with VY Advancement lip augmentation, and chin reduction

Lip augmentation is one of the plastic surgery procedures most often performed. I often get asked questions regarding lip augmentation and why this is so important. When I was in LA lip augmentation was the main procedure which prompted me to look into facial beauty and ultimately lead me to find a new theory on facial beauty. The lip, especially the lower lip, is the center of attention in the mouth area. The location of the lower lip is part of a basic structure of how the face is organized. I recently had a paper accepted by the American Journal of Cosmetic Surgery looking into the distance between the iris, nasal tip, lower lip and bottom of the chin which supports the importance of the lips playing a major part in beauty. This is one of the reasons why lip augmentation is so powerful. The other reason is due to what the lips are related to in our daily functions. The lips are the area that we have major association with eating, smiling, talking, yelling, kissing, breathing. Some of our most basic and primitive functions are related to the lips. These basic functions have a strong connection with our limbic system which is also the area where some of strong emotions are. The limbic system has a major control over our heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure etc which gives our emotions the physical aspect that they have related to them.  Hence lip augmentation emphasizes these feelings in the subconscious mind. Out of most all the things we do in plastic surgery Lip Augmentation can make the biggest “pow” to your aesthetics or beauty.

In terms of the options, fillers are usually the first thing that most people consider. It is temporary, low risk, low downtime, and you can have almost instant results. On our lip augmentation page we say this about lip augmentation: “Feel more attractive and enhance the area that can have the most impact on your face. Lip augmentation can create that stunning effect.” And, we believe this to be true. The drawbacks with filler lip augmentation is that sometimes it lasts only 3 months when it should last 6 mo to a year.  Among the permanent options, Surgisil Permalip implants can be placed. These solid silicone Perma Lip Implants can be placed in the lips wet dry border to enhance your lips. The recovery is quicker than most and takes about a week. Some people loves this option, some (5%) don’t like the feel and the restriction. When this happens the option is taking them out, which I have done many times for people. In its stead, we often carry out fat grafting which works well in this situation. The fat seems to survive better after the permalip implants stretch out the tissues. Which brings us to another more permanent or longer lasting option, fat injections to the lips or the use of the YoungVitalizer for the lips. Fat injections to the Lips is less invasive, lower risk than other options but the complaint is that they don’t survive in the lips. This is a very real complaint. Out of all the areas of the face, the lips have the worse survival rate. Over injections can help this and so can technique. Botox prior to the fat injections can help but your lips may be weak for 3 mo from the botox. The major reason for the lower survival is the high movement of this area. The movement prevents the fat from receiving blood supply. Its like building a house during an earthquake.

Lip VY advancement, VY plasty lip augmentation is another option. This involves taking V’s inside the lips and advancing the tissue forward to augment the lips the result is the V is closed to a Y shape with the V determining the amount and size of the advancement or augmentation. The recovery for this procedure is much longer and more varied. It is sometimes hard to predict how it will heal bu there are things you can do to balance it out. You can do more VY advancing where needed or do Lip Reduction in areas that need it. The main reason to do this procedure is if you want a major change to your lips and are willing to undergo the longer recovery. We have a healing diary for you to see by clicking here: Lip VY Advancement Augmentation Plasty Healing Diary.

The Buffalo Gull Wing Lip Lift is a procedure which shortens the upper lip specifically the distance from the bottom of the nose to the upper lip. This can really make someone look younger and increase their aesthetics. This distance should be about the distance of the width of the iris per Dr. Young’s theory. When should you do this, when this distance is larger than an iris width you could benefit from this. You also have to accept the incision | scar under the nose. This can be hidden really well and controlled based on technique. This can be done to make the upper lip a little larger and more everted and pouty.

A corner of the lip lift can be done as well. The incision however is at the corner of your mouth and many people don’t like this option. This can be used to elevate the corners and there is a way of altering the muscle to weaken the depressors of the lip so that frowning is weaker!! This is obviously something that people would like.

Botox can also weaken the lip muscles to create a pout that is temporary lasting 3-4 months. Our office can also do this as well.

Other options that can be done are fascia grafts to the lips, alloderm (cadaver skin elements) to the lips, solid one piece fat grafts for the lips. These options are not as good, in our opinion, because they get absorbed and very little augmentation will be longer lasting.

A lip lift done just at the top of the lips have been done before but this option is more invasive and leaves a more noticeable scar in this area. Many people do not like this scar and the location of this scar.

Thanks for reading and visiting our blog

Dr. Young from Aesthetic Facial Plastic Surgery.

Vy Advancement for Lip augmentation Dr. Philip Young Seattle | Bellevue

Tuesday, March 26th, 2013

Vy Advancement for Lip augmentation Dr. Philip Young Seattle | Bellevue: We just added a page that discusses the VY advancement for lip enhancement. There are many options for lip enhancement but this is one option that is not as well understood by the general public so we wanted to talk about it. You can use this procedure to add fullness to your lips in certain areas. The VY advancement advances tissue to the lips where you want it. You can do it for the upper and lower lips depending on your needs. The VY advancement can make the red part of your lips larger and more everted and rolled out. The way to do it is to draw the V the width that you want it larger. The V is then advanced and closed into a Y shape. Here is an example of what it can look like:

Vy Advancement Lip Augmentation Dr. Philip Young Seattle Bellevue

Vy Advancement Lip Augmentation Dr. Philip Young Seattle Bellevue

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Dr. Young from Aesthetic Facial Plastic Surgery.

Lip Injections | Enhancement | Augmentations Testimonial | Review Page Seattle | Bellevue Dr. Philip Young:

Tuesday, March 26th, 2013

Lip Injections | Enhancement | Augmentations Testimonial | Review Page Seattle | Bellevue Dr. Philip Young: Click here to read more: Dr Philip Young Bellevue Seattle Testimonials | Reviews Lip Injections.

This person received restylane injections to fill and augment the lips. We believe we are better equiped to get you the best results based on our experience and our improved understanding of facial beauty. Knowing what makes the face beautiful is more than half the battle. In our field, knowing beauty is like having the correct architectural plans to build a house. We feel we understand beauty better. You can see our theory on beauty here in this video: Facial Beauty Theory by Dr. Philip Young. What are some of our secrets? Well first the bottom of the lip needs to be 2 times bigger than the upper lip. Also there is a limit to the amount of puckering that you want in the upper and lower lips. The lips need to be shaped like the eye to emphasize the most important element | shape of the face and that is the eye.

 

You can read more about Lip Injections by following this link.

Thanks for reading and visiting our blog

Dr. Young from Aesthetic Facial Plastic Surgery.

 

Facial Fillers| Injectibles Testimonials | Reviews for Dr. Philip Young & Aesthetic Facial Plastic Surgery

Tuesday, March 26th, 2013

Facial Fillers| Injectibles Testimonials | Reviews for Dr. Philip Young & Aesthetic Facial Plastic Surgery. Click here to read more: Dr Philip Young Bellevue Seattle Testimonials | Reviews For Facial Fillers.

see below for before and afters and a brief discussion on facial fillers:

What are facial fillers? Facial Fillers are products that are usually made up of natural substances that are chemically modified to allow them to last longer in our body. Restylane, Juvederm, Perlane are hyaluronic acids made by bacteria. The hyaluronic acid in some bacteria is chemically unchanged in humans. Meaning we have the same hyaluronic acid as bacteria. Fillers essentially give volume to our face in certain areas to make us look younger because aging is caused in large part by a volume loss.

Here at Aesthetic Facial Plastic Surgery, we tend to use natural products that are safe. We would use all of the products and procedures here for our own family and friends. Also we’ll make sure that you are happy with your results. We usually give your results about 1-2 weeks to settle in and if there are not in any way what you were expecting we will help in every way to make sure to get the results you want. With Restylane we can fill it in more or take some filler out to make it look better. All you have to do is just let us know how you would like it. You can always reach us through our contact page here: Aesthetic Facial Plastic Surgery Contact Page.

 

You can read more about our Facial Fillers by following this link.

Thanks for reading and visiting our blog

Dr. Young from Aesthetic Facial Plastic Surgery.

 

The YoungVitalizer can be a substitute for many traditional procedures like a face lift, mid face lift / cheek lift, lip augmentation, eye lift, etc by Dr. Philip Young Seattle.

Sunday, November 13th, 2011

The YoungVitalizer can be a substitute for many traditional procedures like a face lift, mid face lift / cheek lift, lip augmentation, eye lift, etc by Dr. Philip Young Seattle. The YoungVitalizer can be a substitute for many traditional procedures like a face lift, mid face lift / cheek lift, lip augmentation, eye lift, etcWhy is that? Well a big part of the aging process is a volume loss and if you had a way to replace the volume in the face, doing so in special areas can make you look incredibly younger. It is our secret on how to do this. But there are ways to volumize the eyes, forehead, temple, lower eyes, cheeks and mouth area to substitute and replace face lifts, mid face lifts / cheek lifts, upper eyelifts, lower eyelifts, cheek implants, jaw implants, chin implants, brow lifts, temple lifts, etc with the YoungVitalizer.  That is why we call the YoungVitalizer, the Breakthrough Incision Less Face Lift. The idea of cutting away tissue is becoming an older idea. Cutting away changes the face.  The only situation that cutting away tissue can come into play is if your face changed dramatically since when you were younger.  Aging is like a grape changing into a raisin.  Traditional procedures tended to make that raisin into a smaller raisin. This action and process would make the raisin contorted. Because now you are trying to shape the raisin into a smaller volume. Some of the skin of the raisin will just not conform to the smaller volume you now have because you lost it from the transformation from a grape to a raisin. Replacing this volume will play a huge part in making the raisin back into the grape again.  See this introduction video to the YoungVitalizer.

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Dr Young

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Beverly Hills Housewives and Plastic Surgery

Thursday, January 6th, 2011

by Bellevue | Seattle’s Dr. Philip Young | Aesthetic Facial Plastic Surgery:

I watch this show with my wife every week.  Not just this one, but we watch all the housewives series.  The Beverly Hills Housewives are gorgeous in my opinion.  Lisa Vanderpump is, in my assessment of facial aesthetics, the most stunning of all the housewives.  I believe she might be the oldest of the group.  I think Adrienne Maloof is gorgeous as well.  She happens to be my colleagues wife, Paul Nassif who is an excellent surgeon.  He trained me while I was at USC’s during my Head and Neck Surgery residency / Facial Plastic Surgery training.  All the housewives are stunning in their own way.

I was reading a blog or something one day about what plastic surgery they have done.  To me it doesn’t look like they have had much done except superficial treatments like botox or fillers, in my opinion.  Taylor appears to have had some lip augmentation which she has confirmed that has had issues.  I think they have been augmented more than the lower lip.  When this happens there is always a disconnect.  Lip augmentation was one of the primary reasons that I started to pursue finding more answers to facial aesthetics.  My theory believes that the upper lip should be half the size of the lower lip and not much more.  The lower lip is the center of attention.  If you look at any persons face and concentrate on the lower lip, you will see that most of the light that is reflected back to you is coming from the lower lip and not the upper lip.  Taylor’s augmentation looks like it might be a permalip or some implant.  I think Taylor is gorgeous even though she might think her lips are not as optimal as they should.  I think all she would need would be to take the implants out and consider a temporary filler for the time being and possibly other forms of augmentation including v-y advancements, fat injections or replacement of the implant in a better position.

Hope this was interesting

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Thanks for reading, Dr Young

Dr Young specializes in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and is located in Bellevue near Seattle, Washington

Buffalo Horn Lip Lifts can Improve Your Lips Appearance by Dr. Philip Young of Bellevue | Seattle

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Buffalo Horn Lip Lifts can Improve Your Lips Appearance by Dr. Philip Young of Bellevue | Seattle:

The Buffalo Horn Lip Lift is a lift that entails incising under the nose with corresponding excision of skin and possibly muscle to reduce the distance from the bottom of the nose to the upper lip.  Other names for this lip lift are Gull Wing Lip Lift or Under the Nose Lip Lift.  The question is when do we need to do this as opposed to other procedures.  Other procedures you can do our corner of the lip lifts, fat injections in the lips, silicone implants to the lips (Permalip), V-Y mucosal advancements, Temporary fillers to the lips.  What is the ideal lip in terms of aesthetics is a great question to start answering this.  The upper lip from the front should be about half the height of the lower lip.  The puckering of the lower lip should exaggerate a highlight that is 3 iris widths wide or the same distance of the width of the eyes to emphasize the association with the eyes.  I discussses facial aesthetics in my award winning facial beauty theory here: Theory on Facial Beauty. The puckering of the upper lip should be centered in the middle and should be one iris widths wide and 1/2 an iris width high.  The height of the lower lip should be one iris width in height.  The distance from the bottom of the nose to the upper lip border should be one iris width.   Other points of beauty should be that the teeth with the lip resting open should show at least 3mm of upper teeth and the lower teeth should not be visible much at all.  The upper lip should also protrude anteriorly beyond the lower lip by 1-2 mm.  When you look at beautiful models you will see something interesting.  All of the light that hits the lips is mostly concentrated on the lower lip.  The lower lip is the center of attention when you look at someone and not the upper lips. So you never want to make the upper lip the same size as the lower lip or this balance will be disrupted.    Based on these fundamentals of how the lip should look you can do one or a combination of the above procedures to achieve these ideals.  If the distance from the nose to the lip is greater than an iris width you can do a buffalo horn lip lift to shorten the distance.  A picture below shows in blue where the excision of skin takes place to shorten this distance.  The result of this will cause the upper lip to rise and also will tend to cause the upper lip to show more of the red portion which may or may not be beneficial.  If the lips are thin, that is less than 1/2 iris width for the upper and one iris width for the bottom and less than one iris width in puckering in the upper lip and less than 3 iris widths for the highlight puckering in the lower lip you could volumize the lips with fat injections, temporary fillers, or permalip or other silicone permanent lip implant.  You can also fill the lips with natural tissue implants from the temple or within the face (during a facelift for example) that can act just like the silicone lip implant.  Filling can be done to cause more of the red lip to show.  If there still requires more of the lip to show, you can do V-Y advancements to evert the lips more.  This is done be advancing the mucose or the lining inside the lips in a way that causes the lip to evert more.  You can read about these more here http://www.ayoungyou.com/?cat=15.  Corner of the lip lifts do just that and raise the corners.  The drawbacks with that are that you need an external incision to lift the corners.  If you can accept an external scar this could be a good option.  We have other blogs that discuss that too.  Fat injections can fill the lips, evert the lips and volumize the whole mouth area to rejuvenate the whole mouth or perioral area.

Thanks for reading, Dr Young

Dr Young specializes in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and is located in Bellevue near Seattle, Washington