Fuller lips

No, physicians fill lips with hyaluronic acid, never with Botox. Botox is a muscle relaxant and used mainly on lines on the forehead, frowns and crow’s feet. Lips are filled with temporary fillers based on hyaluronic acid.

Lips are very flexible and the skin is very thin. So, even though our physicians choose the right filler with the right characteristics, there is a tiny chance that some accumulation occurs. These lumps are not visible and don’t require correction. They disappear by themselves after a few weeks/months. If these lumps or bumps cause you concern, you may choose to dissolve them using the solution Hyason.

There is a possibility that the edge of your lip curls outward just a little too much straight after injection. This is because as a normal reaction to the injection the lip has swollen. This swelling disappears within 2 to 3 days. At The Body Clinic we are hesitant about injecting a lot of filler in the contour of the lips because we believe that less is more. If despite our approach you feel your lips are too noticeable, we can remedy this during your follow-up consultation.

We suggest you don’t kiss for the first few days following treatment. Your lips may feel bruised and tender. When after 1 – 2 weeks your lips have fully recovered, the filler will not be noticeable by your partner when you kiss. Your lips will feel natural and soft.

For 9 out of 10 clients 1 millilitre is sufficient. So that’s the maximum our physicians use at a first lip filling treatment. On rare occasions we use another 0.5 millilitre, but we often suggest that the client return after 6 months for an additional treatment. By this time there will still be filler in the lip. The additional treatment will help you build up volume slowly. This will help the ruby part of the lip to get used to the increased volume. It’s basically the same as when losing weight, but then the other way around. You get the best results if you do it at a steady pace.

Unlike a Botulinum toxin treatment, a lip filling treatment isn’t a lunchtime procedure. Whether or not you can go back to work the next day differs from one person to the next. Some people bruise or swell easily. For them it may be wise to take several days off. If this is your first time, we suggest that you make enough room in your schedule, for instance by booking your appointment before the weekend. Then you’ll know next time how much time you need to take off.

A great advantage of The Body Clinic’s use of hyaluronic acid fillers is that these are dissoluble in Hyason. It seldom or never happens that we dissolve all of the hyaluronic acid. We mainly use Hyason to correct a slight asymmetry or to remove a small lump.

In general lips will not turn blue. It’s possible that you’ll be slightly bruised, and often there’s light swelling. If you really like the way your lips look swollen, it’s possible that you could use an extra 0.5 millilitre.

On the contrary. Hyaluronic acid is a bioactive substance naturally found in the body with skin improving, hydrating effects on the lip. This filler will not stretch the lip like a breast implant stretches the skin of a breast. The filler integrates completely with the lip and prevents it from being stretched.

Making a lip look natural is a true skill and one of the trickiest procedures for a physician. The effect depends on the proportion of the lips, but also on the balance between lips and cheekbones. Plus, the kind of hyaluronic acid used and the contour of your lips must be factored in. This is one of the reasons why we carefully select our physicians. If we add up our physicians’ knowledge, we have some thirty years’ experience in filling lips in our clinics. Together we can factor in all the aspects that guarantee a stunning and natural result.

The Body Clinic uses hyaluronic acids that have been tried and tested for a long time. The safety of these products has since been guaranteed for the long term.

The advantage of filling lips with hyaluronic acid is that the result may be modified to your satisfaction. The Body Clinic always offers you a follow-up consultation so we can assess the before and after pictures together. If required, a little extra may be added or some volume may be removed. We feel that our procedure guarantees you the best result: the lips you’ve always wanted. We’ll do our utmost to achieve this. So we don’t refund, but rather optimise the result until satisfaction is achieved. If at the free initial consultation it becomes apparent that your expectations are not in line with what our clinic has to offer, our physician may suggest that you go elsewhere in order to avoid disappointments.

In general, any filler lasts approximately 12 months. However, that’s an average. Your body dissolves the hyaluronic acid as a substance naturally occurring in the body. With some clients the filler disappears after 6 to 8 months. Other clients still have the filler after 14 months. In rare cases, the body dissolves the acid within several weeks, or it remains for several years.

At The Body Clinic we offer a free, no obligation first consultation. This gives you time to find out if you consider yourself a candidate for lip filler. When all your questions have been answered and you’re sure you feel good about our physician and our clinic, there is usually still time to carry out a procedure.

In general it takes between 10 and 15 minutes to treat the lip with fillers. But before we can treat you, we apply a cream that works as a topical anaesthetic. After treatment it may be wise to cool the lip for a while.

Lips are sensitive, that’s true. Hence the use of a topical anaesthetic cream to numb the sensation. Despite the effects of the cream that we use at The Body Clinic, lip treatment is considered uncomfortable by some clients.

In 90% of the cases a 1-millilitre dose of hyaluronic acid is sufficient. This costs from 500 euros, including first consultation and follow-up. However, sometimes half a millilitre is enough. This costs approximately 300 euros.