When to Perform a Lip Lift and When Not To Let me just get this out of the way: I hate lip lifts. Well not always. I just think they are too often performed creating lips that look unnatural. There are exceptions to this rule but there are very few, which I shall try...
Category Archives: lip reduction
Understanding The Importance of Lip Transitions When Creating Natural Looking Lips
Understanding The Importance of Lip Transitions When Creating Natural Looking Lips I have been thinking about transitions from the red lip to the non-red lip because of two women that I saw in the past few days. First, there was a woman who came from Oklahoma that...
Concerns After Lip Reduction Surgery
Concerns After Lip Reduction: Revisited Since I perform a very large number of lip reductions, I have worked hard to discuss with individuals all of the risks, complications, and recovery issues that I can imagine and that I have experienced over the years. This blog...
Nicole Kidman’s Lips: The Non-Disappearing Lip
Nicole Kidman’s Lips: The Non-Disappearing Lip Celebrities all are subject to bad plastic surgery like the rest of us. They just so happen to have their mugs plastered across magazines and television appearances, making their mistakes ever so more glaring. Nicole...
Lip Reduction/Correction Testimonial 1 Year Out for Bad Silicone Injection
Jody, Dr. Lam's patient, gives her testimonial 1 year after her upper and lower lip reduction procedure and talks about how it has changed her life.
Lips and Teeth: Relationships that are Important When Planning for Lip Augmentation
Lips and Teeth: Relationships that are Important When Planning for Lip Augmentation The number one concern that most women have when they visit a plastic surgeon when it comes to lip size is “Please make my upper lip bigger, but I don’t want it to look unnatural.” ...
Who is a Candidate for Lip Reduction
Who is a Candidate for Lip Reduction Our society has been deluged with desires for lip augmentation or enlargement but who is a good candidate to have his or her lips reduced? There are two principle groups of people desiring lip reduction. The first group includes...
African-American Lip Reduction Diary
This African-American patient shows her recovery the week following a lip reduction surgery with Dr. Sam Lam. Here is her video:
Hanging Lower Lip Reduction
This patient discusses the reasons why he underwent a lower lip reduction and his thoughts about his results.
Lip Reduction/Correction of Fat Transfer and SMAS
This woman came to have a correction via Lip Reduction of her lip that was augmented incorrectly with fat grafting and SMAS by another physician. She talks about her experience for one day following the procedure.