Lips: Lip Line Correction
Before & After Gallery

Procedure: Lip Line Correction with Mild or Moderate Lip Enhancement

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Dr. Bonakdar Explains: Lip aging in this patient has resulted in deflated thin lips and etched lip lines. She states lipstick is difficult to apply on her lips and tends to run into her lip lines. Unlike many women in her age group, this patient opted to enhance her lip size along with treating her lip lines. Dr. Bonakdar did precisely that, with beautiful results that the patient is pleased with.

Procedure: Lip Line Correction with Lip Hydration

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 44 Year Old Female

Dr. Bonakdar Explains: Not everyone getting lip augmentation is interested in overly inflated lips. Many of Dr. Bonakdar’s patients are interested in just reversing their lip aging. Such was the case for this patient whose lip aging included smokers lines outside of the lips and lip deflation. With one syringe of Juvederm Ultra Plus, these signs have been reversed, leaving the patient’s lips rejuvenated and natural looking.

Procedure: Lip Line Correction with Lip Hydration

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 47 Year Old Female

Dr. Bonakdar Explains: Dr. Bonakdar is an expert in hydrating the lips to remove lip lines that accumulate on the lips as well as outside the lips with aging. Most patients worry about their results looking unnatural or being very obvious. By using the appropriate filler that matches the consistency of the patient’s own tissue, Dr. Bonakdar avoids unnatural results.

Procedure: Lip Line Correction with Lip Hydration

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 38 Year Old Female

Dr. Bonakdar Explains: No one in their thirties deserves to have vertical lip lines. This lovely patient wanted to get rid of her lip lines and explore a bit of lip augmentation. But she was very apprehensive about procedure pain, downtime and unnatural results. She had a great experience under the care of Dr. Bonakdar, who first did a dental block to numb the area. She also used a micro-vibrator to further distract the pain fibers and Accuvein vein finder to avoid bruises. Amazing experience and beautiful results in the hands of a master expert are the reasons for choosing Dr. Bonakdar.

Procedure: Subtle Correction of Early Lip Lines

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 52 Year Old Female

Dr. Bonakdar Explains: This young patient was bothered by the beginning signs of lip lines which runs in her family. She wanted to start treating them before they become etched in her skin. She specifically did not want lip augmentation, was terrified of unnatural ducky results and downtime. Dr. Bonakdar used her cannula filler technique with Volbella to achieve very natural subtle results. By using cannulas in very vascular areas like around the mouth and the eyes, Dr. Bonakdar avoids bruising and injection trauma.

Procedure: Correction of Etched in Lip Lines

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 66 Year Old Female

Dr. Bonakdar Explains: Many people wrongly assume that there is nothing to be done about the pesky lip lines that form around the mouth. Contrary to this belief, Dr. Bonakdar has an entire repertoire of solutions to correct this unwanted signs of aging. Unfortunately, when these lines become etched in the skin the number of treatments needed for perfect results increases. In this photo, Dr. Bonakdar demonstrates improvement of lip lines with fillers. She has also recommended color correction with Intense Pulse Light and texture correction with Vivace to this patient.

Procedure: Lip Line Correction with Lip Hydration

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 51 Year Old Female

Dr. Bonakdar Explains: The causes of unwanted upper lip lines include sun damage, smoking and genetics. Regardless of the cause, the good news is that unwanted lip lines are easily corrected by Dr. Bonakdar. Many patients that seek this correction are worried about bruising and unnatural “ducky lips”. Dr. Bonakdar uses cannulas instead of sharp needles to prevent bruising. She also uses the appropriate filler to prevent unnatural results and determines if her patient desires lip augmentation at the same time or not.

Procedure: Lip Line Correction with Lip Hydration

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 73 Year Old Female

Dr. Bonakdar Explains: Lips don't age in isolation. The entire mouth area undergoes aging changes that need to be addressed during a lip injection session. Otherwise, the results will not appear natural and may even look ducky. Dr. Bonakdar corrected the lip lines above and below the lips, the lip corners, the marionette lines as well as slightly augmenting the body of the lips.

Procedure: Lip Line Correction with Lip Hydration

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 46 Year Old Female

Dr. Bonakdar Explains: Some non-smokers are genetically prone to form lip lines above their lips as they age. Dr. Bonakdar corrects this aging sign by injecting the area of the lip using a combination of horizontal injections with cannula and vertical injections with needle. Lip line correction can be combined with lip augmentation of the lips or can be done without changing the size of the lips.

Procedure: Lip Line Correction with Lip Hydration

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 56 Year Old Female

Dr. Bonakdar Explains: This patient requested correction of her lip deflation. She was also open to slight augmentation of her lips. Lip deflation can be corrected with or without augmentation of the lips based on the filler used. Dr. Bonakdar prefers to use Volbella for correction of deflation without augmentation. For more visible lip augmentation she uses Juvéderm Ultra or Ultra Plus.

Procedure: Lip Line Correction with Lip Hydration

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 58 Year Old Female

Dr. Bonakdar Explains: With aging, the lips begin to deflate and lip lines may develop. When left untreated, lip lines get deeper and become more noticeable. Many patients complain that their lipstick runs into these lines. This patient wanted to treat her deflated and her visible lip lines. Like many patients she was concerned about her results and wanted to avoid ducky lips or the trout pout. Volbella is the ideal filler for correction of lip lines and for natural lip augmentation. This patient was very happy with her results. Dr. Bonakdar suggested that she considers correction the lip corners and her sleep lines next.

Procedure: Lip Line Correction with Lip Hydration

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 63 Year Old Female

Dr. Bonakdar Explains: Patients with thin skin are prone to getting vertical lip lines outside of the lips. These lines can be corrected with a filler treatment. However, the type of filler used as well as the skin of the injector determines the success of the procedure. Overfilling or any work in the hands of an unskilled injector can turn these tiny crevices into more noticeable mounds. This patient had one syringe of Juvederm Volbella injected into the lip lines and is happy with her natural results.

Procedure: Lip Line Correction with Lip Hydration

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 61 Year Old Female

Dr. Bonakdar Explains: Lip augmentation in older individuals who have sun damaged thin skin, if not done properly may lead to unflattering results. The is because, too much filler will transform a wrinkle into an unnatural mound. Dr. Bonakdar injected Volbella, which she calls her anti-duck lip filler, in the lip lines as well as in the lip mucosa. You would agree that the results have completely taken away the lip lines and are pleasing.

Procedure: Lip Line Correction with Lip Hydration

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 61 Year Old Female

Dr. Bonakdar Explains: Lip lines are one of the most challenging filler treatments as too much filler or the wrong filler will result in unnatural and “ducky” lips. Dr. Bonakdar is an expert in correction of lip lines. She prefers to use Juvederm Volbella for lip line corrections. Unlike other Hyaluronic acid fillers which have the capacity to swell beyond their volume, this one does not swell after injection. This patient has thin skin and has suffered with lip lines for many years. She was extremely happy with her immediate results in Dr. Bonakdar’s expert hands.

Procedure: Lip Line Correction with Lip Hydration

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 65 Year Old Female

Dr. Bonakdar Explains: In the before picture, this patient shows signs of facial aging around her mouth- down turned lip corners, lip lines above and below the lips as well as deflated lips. Dr. Bonakdar injected two syringes of Juvederm Volbella to naturally augment her lips and erase the aging lines. Dr. Bonakdar calls Volbella the anti-duck filler!

Procedure: Lip Line Correction with Lip Hydration

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 72 Year Old Female

Dr. Bonakdar Explains: Not every patient who sees Dr. Bonakdar for lip augmentation has the same end goals in mind. Commonly, her younger patients ask for moderate to dramatic lip augmentation, fully enjoying showing off their big lips. Whereas her more mature patients ask for mild or under the radar lip augmentation, being more concerned with eradicating lip wrinkles and stopping their lip stick from running into unwanted lip lines. Dr. Bonakdar listens to her patients’ goals and confidently transforms their wishes into reality. This later scenario of lip lines and wrinkles was the case for the patient shown here. She was very pleased with the disappearance of the line lines and wrinkles, and her slightly enlarged, but still under the radar lips.

Procedure: Lip Line Correction with Lip Hydration

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 75 Year Old Female

Dr. Bonakdar Explains: Dr. Bonakdar prefers to use Juvederm Volbella for correction of lip lines in thin skin individuals. Because this is a thin filler, it often takes more than one syringe for complete correction of the lip lines. This patient opted for a staged correction in two treatment sessions. She is shown here after her first syringe of Volbella. You can see improvement in the lines but they are certainly not completely gone. As an expert injector, Dr. Bonakdar guides her patients regarding the number of treatment sessions and the number of syringes necessary for optimal results.