Discussion of Lip & Cheek Augmentation With Fillers by Washington DC cosmetic surgeon

So in today's video series, what we're going to do is three procedures. We're going to do a dental block, and there's a video of that on our website showing the technique. But we'll do it again here today. After that, we'll do a lip injection and we'll use Juvederm, which is the hyaluronic acid we're going to inject off her lower lips for Jennifer. And finally, we're going to use Perlene, which is a different form of hyaluronic acid, very closely related to gm, but it's made by a different company called Medicis. It's a little thicker, stronger molecule that lasts just a little bit longer and it can be put into the lips. However, it creates too much bruising and bleeding in the lips. It's fantastic for sculpting the face and the cheeks and the malar eminence. So what we're going to do is we're going to put her in this location just to give her a little bit of cheek implants. But lately, the last several years, I find the use of hyaluronic acids and radies much more beneficial. It's much easier to sculpt exactly where you want to put it. They're soft with implants on the cheeks. The problem is you may come out of the OR and wish that it was just slightly bigger or slightly smaller. Well, you're out of luck and you have to go back to surgery. But with fillers, you can contour them as you please and modify it with time, add more or just let it shrink down a little bit. You can also put them in different locations. You can build up the mid face area. You can build up the tear troughs. You can build up the zygomatic arch to give the face more height, more of a triangular youthful look, more of a volume for aging face issues. So we do lots and lots of that lately. And everybody likes it. It's very quick, as you'll see.