Lips: Moderate Lip Enhancement
Before & After Gallery

Procedure: Moderate Lip Augmentation

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 19 Year Old Female

Description: Lip Augmentation is one of the most requested filler procedures that Dr. Bonakdar performs. She selects the best filler based on the desired outcomes, expertly delivering a variety of looks including natural looking lips, moderate lip augmentation and dramatic lip augmentation. Plump symmetrical lips without lines are an indicator of fertility and youth. Humans are subconsciously programmed to be attracted to youthful lips for the survival of our species! Lips are more attractive when the left and the right sides are identical mirror images. This is a perfect example of Dr. Bonakdar’s expert results.

Case Number: 00308

Procedure: Moderate Lip Augmentation

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 23 Year Old Female

Description: Dr. Bonakdar believes that lip augmentation is a very individualized treatment. She listens to what her patient's goals are. From barely perceptible enhancement to more pronounced augmentation, she delivers the results that are complimentary to her patient's features while creating their ultimate goal.

Case Number: 00309

Procedure: Moderate Lip Augmentation

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Description: This patient had a deflated top lip and wrinkles in the lower lip that are indicative of aging. She wanted plumper lips. Dr. Bonakdar achieved her desired look creating a more defined cupids bow, and more hydrated, youthful lips. Plump symmetrical lips without lines are an indicator of fertility and youth. Humans are subconsciously programmed to be attracted to youthful lips for the survival of our species! Lips are more attractive when the left and the right sides are identical mirror images.

Case Number: 00310

Procedure: Moderate Lip Augmentation

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 31 Year Old Female

Description: This patient has had a lip augmentation previously by another injector with uneven results. Plump symmetrical lips without lines are an indicator of fertility and youth. Humans are subconsciously programmed to be attracted to youthful lips for the survival of our species! Lips are more attractive when the left and the right sides are identical mirror images. Dr. Bonakdar defined her cupid’s bow and added volume to even out the inconsistencies. Patient is happy with her results.

Case Number: 00311

Procedure: Moderate Lip Augmentation

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 42 Year Old Male

Description: Lip augmentation is a popular procedure among men who want to enhance their features and look more youthful. Everyone has their wish list when it comes to lip augmentation from an under the radar look to a very dramatic look, and men are no different. Dr. Bonakdar proceeds with injections only after a thorough discussion with her clients to understand her client’s goals. In essence she has mastered the art of listening as much as she has the art of injecting.

Case Number: 00312

Procedure: Moderate Lip Augmentation

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 38 Year Old Female

Description: Lip augmentation is one of the most requested filler procedures that Dr. Bonakdar performs. Depending on the results desired, Dr. Bonakdar chooses the filler with the ideal characteristics. For her out of town patients who want moderate to dramatic lip enhancement, she suggests longer lasting fillers.

Case Number: 00313

Procedure: Moderate Lip Augmentation

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 38 Year Old Female

Description: When Dr. Bonakdar teaches lip filler treatments to her colleagues, she often says that “lip augmentation is the easiest filler treatment to do poorly!” The most important factor in achieving great lip filler results is the skills of the injector. Dr. Bonakdar listens to her clients and will create results ranging from natural to moderate to dramatic based on her conversation with her patient.

Case Number: 00314

Procedure: Moderate Lip Augmentation

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 25 Year Old Female

Description: Deciding to have a lip augmentation is a huge decision. Dr Bonakdar understands that you may be nervous about the end results and encourages her clients to review her extensive library of filler before and after photos and to show her examples of their desired outcome. This simple step helps her clients commence their treatment feeling confident that they are in good hands, and they leave absolutely happy and loving their results.

Case Number: 00315

Procedure: Moderate Lip Augmentation

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 29 Year Old Female

Description: Beautiful lips are appreciated by all humans regardless of their geographical and cultural differences. This is because ideal lips have certain predictable attributes. Plump symmetrical lips without lines are an indicator of fertility and youth. Humans are subconsciously programmed to be attracted to youthful lips for the survival of our species! Lips are more attractive when the left and the right sides are identical mirror images.

Case Number: 00316

Procedure: Moderate Lip Augmentation

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 39 Year Old Female

Description: Deflation in the upper lip has caused the cupid’s bow to widen and flatten. Dr Bonakdar re-established the borders of the cupid’s bow with filler injection, decreasing the width to a better proportion. Deflation in both top and bottom lips resulted in lip wrinkles. Dr. Bonakdar hydrates these fine lines with filler injections and at the same time creates vertical height to the lips as seen on these profile photos.

Case Number: 00317

Procedure: Moderate Lip Augmentation

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 46 Year Old Female

Description: Plump symmetrical lips without lines are an indicator of fertility and youth. Humans are subconsciously programmed to be attracted to youthful lips for the survival of our species! Lips are more attractive when the left and the right sides are identical mirror images. This patient requested moderate lip augmentation with a long-lasting filler. Dr. Bonakdar enhanced her lips adding vertical height and outward projection as seen on the profile photos.

Case Number: 00318

Procedure: Moderate Lip Augmentation

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 51 Year Old Female

Description: With aging the lips lose their shape and volume. This patient wanted her lips to look more youthful and plumper, but still be age appropriate. Lip augmentation disguised the lip wrinkles making her appear younger.

Case Number: 00319

Procedure: Moderate Lip Augmentation

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 26 Year Old Female

Description: Everyone worries about unnatural results when they see a new injector or when they try fillers for the first time. This adorable patient was no different. She wanted lip augmentation that enhanced her youth and beauty. She was not interested in overly dramatic results. Dr. Bonakdar customizes each filler treatment, choosing the ideal filler to meet her patient’s needs. She was very happy with the results that Dr. Bonakdar delivered.

Case Number: 00320

Procedure: Moderate Lip Augmentation

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 28 Year Old Female

Description: This is a first-time filler patient who was both nervous and excited about her treatment. Dr. Bonakdar makes the lip injection experience easy and pain free. Her lip filler results are instant and improve during the first week. A complimentary recheck during the second week is an opportunity for fine tuning results. This patient’s lips turned out gorgeous and are exactly what she wanted.

Case Number: 00321

Procedure: Moderate Lip Augmentation

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 30 Year Old Female

Description: Lip goals are a personal preference. Communicating one’s goals to the injector during the lip augmentation appointment is challenging. Not everyone means the same thing when using words to describe desired visual results. Communicating via photo examples minimizes misunderstandings. For this reason, Dr. Bonakdar encourages her clients to review her extensive library of filler before and after photos and to show her examples of their desired outcome. This simple step helps her clients commence their treatment feeling confident that they are in good hands, and they leave absolutely happy and loving their results.

Case Number: 00322

Procedure: Moderate Lip Augmentation

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 31 Year Old Female

Description: This out-of-town patient had never had a lip filler before but was very bothered with her lip deflation. 84% of patients surveyed by Allergan who have had lip augmentation done previously, would pay more for a filler that would last six months longer. Dr. Bonakdar injected this client with a long-lasting filler giving better shape and volume to her lips. Her lips are no longer deflated but at the same time, look size appropriate and natural. Her parting comment was that “she will never not have her aging lips augmented!”

Case Number: 00323

Procedure: Moderate Lip Augmentation

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 30 Year Old Female

Description: Ideally, the right and left sides of the lip should be identical mirror images of each other. In this patient, her left upper lips is smaller than her right upper lip. She asked Dr. Bonakdar for moderate lip augmentation as well as for correction of the unevenness of her upper lip. Dr. Bonakdar chooses the ideal lip filler based on the result that her patients want to achieve. In her expert hands, the possibilities include under the radar barely perceptible improvement, all the way to dramatically augmented lips. Her patients appreciate that she listens to their goals.

Case Number: 00324

Procedure: Moderate Lip Augmentation

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 22 Year Old Female

Description: There are three important factors to achieving great lip filler results.

1. The type of filler used because not all fillers are ideal for lips. Rest assured Dr. Bonakdar will choose your filler based on her assessment of your lips.
2. The injection technique because not all techniques work for every patient. Dr. Bonakdar is an Allergan Medical Institute faculty and teaches other physicians how to inject fillers.
3. The skills of the injector. Dr. Bonakdar’s before and after photos are a testament to her master level skills and your safety in her care.

Case Number: 00325

Procedure: Moderate Lip Augmentation with Dog Bite Scar Correction

Provider: Monica Bonakdar, MD

Patient Information: 30 Year Old Female

Description: Dog bites to the face can cause scarring and asymmetries as is the case in this beautiful patient who asked for moderate lip augmentation. She pointed out that the left side of her upper lip is scarred and does not match the right side. Dr. Bonakdar precisely injected her lips and reshaped the left upper lip to better match the right side. The proportion of the upper to the lower lip now is quite pleasing to the eye.

Case Number: 00326