The Art of Lip and Cheek Enhancement: What You Need to Know

Dermal fillers are incredibly popular cosmetic injections, with over a million people getting them each year. This aesthetic procedure can address natural signs of aging such as fine lines and age spots, correct any facial asymmetry, and even enhance your already beautiful features.  

If you have thin lips, or if your cheeks look slightly disproportional, dermal fillers can enhance those facial features and help you achieve your aesthetic goals with gel-filled injections that fill in areas of skin that have lost volume.

It’s important to note that any type of cosmetic injection takes expert precision and care to apply correctly, and dermal fillers are no exception. So, when seeking lip and cheek enhancement, you should look no further than our team of dermatologists at Thomas Dermatology. 

In this blog, we review everything you need to know about dermal fillers for lip and cheek enhancement.

Understanding how lip enhancement works

While there are a few different ways to augment your lips, hyaluronic acid fillers are the most commonly used injections for that purpose. We can address issues like lips that have lost volume with age, asymmetrical lip shape, and wrinkles that have formed around your mouth.

When you come in for lip fillers, our team sits down with you, discusses your goals, and assesses your facial structure to determine injection placement. We then numb the injection area with local anesthetic before expertly placing the hyaluronic acid with very fine needles.

You can expect your lip fillers to last anywhere between 12-18 months, depending on how quickly your body breaks down the filler material. If you want your results to last, simply see us for repeat injections. 

Understanding how cheek enhancement works

Cheek fillers can not only raise the volume above and around your cheekbones, giving you a more defined bone structure, but they can also smooth out any fine lines or wrinkles around your cheek area. 

At our practice, our team can either use fillers that contain hyaluronic acid or polylactic acid, depending on what your aesthetic goals are. Hyaluronic acid plumps up skin that’s lost elasticity, and polylactic acid stimulates the production of collagen to keep your skin tight.

The cheek filler process is very similar to the lip filler process. Our team talks through your goals and takes a close look at the structure of your cheeks. We then numb the area and inject the fillers carefully and precisely. 

Cheek filler results can last anywhere from six months to two years, depending on the type you get and how quickly your body breaks down the filler substance.

To learn if you’d be a good candidate for lip and cheek enhancement, contact our offices in Las Vegas and Henderson, Nevada, and Lake Havasu City, Kingman, and Bullhead City, Arizona, to set up a consultation. Either call the location closest to you or use our online scheduler today.