Is a lip lift permanent?
How long a lip lift holds
There is no general promise that a lip lift is permanent or that it is not. How long a result holds depends on the person, the technique and time, and only your surgeon can speak to your case. What you can do is ask how long the surgeon expects your result to hold and what that expectation is based on.
Questions that get at permanence
For permanence, ask about the years after surgery rather than the first weeks.
- How long do you expect my result to hold, and what is that based on?
- What in my case could shorten it?
- Do you have patients photographed years after a lip lift, not only weeks?
- What would a revision involve?
If you are comparing a lip lift with lip filler, a plastic surgery society ranks every option in from gloss to surgery: every lip augmentation option ranked. For the surgical side, an evidence-based review of lip lift techniques, from the bullhorn onward sets out clinical recommendations. A systematic review of simultaneous rhinoplasty and lip lift outcomes shows how outcomes are reported for lip lift in the published literature.
When a surgeon promises permanence
Ask the four questions at a consultation and write the answers down. If a surgeon promises a permanent result, ask what they base that on.
Your exam before any estimate
Your surgeon's exam and plan for you come first.