title: Upper and lower lip augmentation by buried, deepithelialized local flaps: an alternative to the use of foreign material implants when shortening the lips.
abstract: Augmentation of the lips has become a new request among patients searching for aesthetic improvement, although it is a very old goal among plastic surgeons when enhancing facial harmony. The simplicity of injecting synthetic material may have contributed to this request; nevertheless, the short-term duration and bizarre results seen with these materials, convinces us to the beneficial effects of our "good, old-fashioned" surgical methods with autologous tissues.
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Kostianovsky
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005145:Face / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008046:Lip / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013518:Surgery, Plastic; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous