“Most of us that do this procedure with any regularity recognize that you have to be fairly aggressive—maybe even slightly over correct—to get the type of result that you want,” he says. “We’re removing perhaps one-third and in some extreme cases up to even 40% of the white portion of the upper lip.”
Dr. Waldman says that while he used to use a lot of deep sutures, he doesn’t anymore. Deep sutures in the subnasal lip lift seem prone to splitting.
“We really use only a minimal number of deeper sutures and use very small sutures. Many times, we’ll use a suture as small as a 7-0 to close the skin,” Dr. Waldman says.
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