The cause of less full lips

The effects of your teeth and chin

With the arrival of Instagram and the inclusive beauty trend, which embraces all skin colors and body shapes, has created a new ideal of beauty: the Kim Kardashian style. The light-skinned woman with huge curves: from lip to butt. Young women are particularly attracted to it. Women of non-Western origin have a much more pronounced body contour compared to the Caucasian (the white person) or the Asian woman. Moreover, clear curves are a visual language that you can connect to female fertility based on a biological principle. Biology also shows that the lip swells slightly during ovulation (ovulation), another link to fertility. Instagram is full of faces with full lips. As a result, women who are unsure about their lip volume are only more confirmed in their image. Lip augmentation with injectables has taken off enormously. But how useful is it to satisfy a young woman who thinks she has a lip that is too narrow with volume enhancement through injectables? Because, what if the lip isn't too narrow, but there are other causes that make you think so? No attention to the underlying cause Cosmetic doctor Frodo Gaymans, from the clinic of the same name in Amsterdam, believes that more attention should be paid to the underlying cause of a lip that is too small or narrow. Precisely to prevent an appearance from being created that undermines natural beauty. The role that chin and teeth play in a lip that is too small “When a lip is filled, it can hide something else, for example that your chin is relatively small, whether your teeth are relatively small or too far back. This makes the padded lip look unnatural. So what is the solution? Frodo Gaymans: “It starts with knowledge: why does your face look the way it does? So what are fair solutions? For example, getting braces that make your teeth stand out a little more, or make the chin stand out more. Or acceptance that you shouldn't do anything. Give an overall picture In our clinic, we always provide a complete picture: the causes and the solutions. From orthodontics to fillers — where we then map the entire oral region, to plastic surgery. I think that, as a cosmetic doctor, you are obliged to provide total insight. Isn't it sad when a young woman has no lips, no pretty mouth, can't wear lipstick? “No, it's sad when there's a doctor who promises to fix it and can't live up to that, making the woman look unnatural. The treatment cycle: from structure to contour to refining 'I believe that you should first tackle the basics by removing a certain uncertainty and only then proceed to treatment. “When we want bigger lips, we first look at the chin area I spoke about earlier. We first work on structure building, then contour building and then on what we call refinement, refinement. And with that, you also get the most beautiful, most sustainable faces. After five years, a swollen mouth area “You really have to work carefully. Fillers stay in the skin for a number of years. Women who receive one milliliter in the lip each time develop a distorted oral region over the years. “The upper lip is getting thicker and so is the area around it, as if the entire area between the lips and nose is swollen. You actually have less lip, but mainly a swollen lip region. What if you regret your lips that are too full? “You can dissolve hyaluronic acid well with hyasone. It also makes it hyaluronic A bit looser, so that it also spreads on its own. It sometimes also breaks down your own hyaluronic acid slightly, but the skin's own hyaluronic acid is rebuilt within a few weeks. “People can sometimes be very dissatisfied after dissolving fillers, but that's mainly because they actually have their face back to the way it is naturally. That scares them because they have become accustomed to a padded version of themselves. Start with a clean slate “For us, it's better to get the face back to its natural proportions first. Only then can we start working on a fresh look that also suits the face. I sometimes compare it to makeup. You don't go to sleep with your evening makeup on, and update it the next day. You cleanse your skin and reapply your makeup. That looks much nicer. Solving incorrectly placed fillers therefore gives us a better basis for working on a natural, refreshed look. ' Watch a fascinating slide show by drs Frodo Gaymans about optical illusions in the face to enhance beauty here: