Thursday, December 6, 2007

Plumping Up Your Pucker:

There are those who swear by the authenticity of Hollywood goddess Angelina Jolie’s luscious lips. Bee-stung lips became all the rage when she shot to the upper legions of Hollywood actors with movies like ‘Tomb Raider’ and ‘Original Sin’. Brittany Murphy, of ‘Just Married’ fame, is the latest fan of the bee-stung lip look with her [seemingly] enhanced lips.

Whether these celebrities have actually had their lips enhanced or not we might never know. But for the men and women looking for lips that are similar to their favorite celebrity, lip augmentation treatments are the best that cosmetic surgery has to offer.

There are two things that plastic surgeons can do to plump up and accentuate lips. They can either use injectables or they can use implants.

Among the injectable options that are available there are synthetic materials like Artecoll and organic materials like Autologen, Collagen, Dermalogen, Fascia, fat, HylaForm and Restylane which surgeons can use for augmenting a patient’s lips.

From among the implants that plastic surgeons use are materials like Alloderm, Gore-Tex, SoftForm, soft ePTFE and local flap and fat grafts.

Both injectables and implants come with their own set of pros and cons and hence it is best to consult your doctor which is the treatment best suited for you. For instance, certain synthetic injectables have a chance of resulting in an infection, but are preferred to organic fillers like fat which the body will absorb in a few months.

Lip augmentation can produce marvelous results, but in the end you are the one who has to live with a changed body. If you have a slight body and facial structure, then it is not advisable to go in for a lip augmentation that will give you full-blown lips.

Visit the Plastic Surgery Institute of California in Orange County, California for an honest consultation on lip augmentation and other surgeries to enhance your facial appearance.

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