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KMID : 0358819890160010211
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Journal of Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons
1989 Volume.16 No. 1 p.211 ~ p.215
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A CLINICAL REVIEW OF 12 CASES WITH LIP REDUCTION
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Yoon Chung-Gil
Kim Soo-Chul
Kim Chul-Joo
Ham Kee-Suk
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Abstract
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From the view-point of our traditional concept, beautiful lips were defined as a small mouth with thick lips like a red matured cherry. But today young people consider thin lips to be beautiful.
Most of the ladies who have the thick lips want to reduce their thickness because they want to change the lip impression from the dull and greedy to the sensuous and sexy one. They love thin lips but don’t seem to insist on a small mouth.
We have recently reviewed 12 cases of lip reduction for the esthetic purpose during last 5 years. 3 out of 12 cases corrected both the upper and lower lip, 4 were only the lower lip, 2 were the upper lip and 3 were partial corrections.
In three cases, 2 for the lower lip and 1 for the upper lip, we tried to reduce the thickness of their lips only by excision of mucosa and subcutaneous tissue for the inexperienced period, but we realized each cases needed additional underlying muscle excision because of inadequate improvement.
From this, we recognized that the partial excision of muscle is the key procedure to succeed the reduction of lips, but it should be limited to only mid orbicularis oris muscle. The denture and alvealor status also take an important role in accomplishing a satisfactory surgical result.
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