מפאת חוק "הגנת זכויות יוצרים", מובא להלן תקציר המאמר בלבד. לקריאתו בטקסט מלא, אנא פנה לספרייה הרפואית הזמינה לך.

Findings from photometric analysis and measurements in soft tissue on cranial magnetic resonance imaging show that the aging upper lip suffers from significant lengthening, thinning and volume loss and deepening of nasolabial folds.

In this study, these findings are implemented in a review of 500 cases of upper lip rejuvenation to propose an evidence based strategy for surgical rejuvenation of the upper lip.

Rejuvenating the upper lip needs to address both lengthening as the volume loss.

This requires a combination of surgical shortening of the upper lip by a precisely designed lip lift and a differential filling of certain upper lip regions by microfat grafting. The combination of these two modalities works synergistically and produces a result that is more than the sum of the different components.