smokers lines

How do I get rid of lines around my mouth or “Smoker’s Lines”

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Smoker'S LinesFine lines around the mouth are often called “Smoker’s Lines” and are the result of smoking, drinking from plastic water bottles or using straws. Your lip muscles contract around the the bottle or straw, and over time, the skin creases over itself, forming an etched in line or WRINKLE. As you age, the quality of the skin decreases, and these wrinkles become deeper and more noticable.

To improve and prevent these lines from worsening, we must focus on 3 things:

  1. The CAUSE
  2. Improve the QUALITY of the skin above the lip.
  3. Volume Loss

This requires;

  1. Botox injections just around the mouth to relax the muscle causing the lines.
  2. Filler for deep lines and firming and replacing lost volume above lip.
  3. Microneedling to stimulate lost collagen deep in the dermis.
  4. Chemical Peels to exfoliate dead skin and allow skin care products to go to work and to stimulate collagen superficially.
  5. At-home skin care products that work each day to to tell the skin to slow aging.

How do I get rid of Smoker’s Lines?

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Smoker'S LinesLines around the mouth can be caused by smoking, drinking from water bottles and straws, or just plain genes. These lines around your mouth look bad when you say “WE” or “ONE”. Take a good look in the mirror and check our your lips.

The real name for smoker’s lines is Lip Lines or Perioral Rhytids. Lets use Lip Lines. Treatment depends on the severity of your lip lines.

Mild or you are just beginning to see them:

  1. PREVENT them from getting worse now.
    1. Small dose of Botox at least 4 times per year.
    2. Ulthera lip treatment 1-2 per year.
    3. Rejuvapen(medical microneedling) 3 X per year.

Moderate, you can see them.

  1. ALL of the above
  2. Juvederm filler may be used to fill them in.

Remember:  Your lip lines will worsen with time. You can choose to DO something or just allow them to become severe and depressing.

How do I treat wrinkles around my lips, or “smokers’ lines”?

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Treating lip lines that are severe depends on the patient’s expectation. If you want the
lines “gone” you will need deep skin resurfacing with either a laser, chemicals or dermabrasion(not to be mistaken for microdermabrasion).

These resurfacing procedures are painful and require weeks and months to heal. These procedures may also result in an unnatural appearing skin condition where the skin appears white and waxy looking, or the skin may ever discolor a darker color.

For some patients, using a combo of fillers and Botox can significantly improve the appearance of smokers lines. When Juvederm filler is placed with a micro-needle technique utilized by Dr. Keefe, the fine lines can improve. Tiny amounts of filler are placed with a tiny needle into each line individually. This must be repeated 2-3 times about 4-8 weeks apart.

Botox is then injected in very small doses to calm that muscle around the mouth. Remember, it is the muscle contraction around that mouth that causes the lines! Just look in your mirror and tighten your lips hard! If you see lines, you can see how your muscle causes it!

The Botox Cosmetic will weaken this muscle which will help prevent the lines from worsening. You must consider how you want these lines to appear 1-5 years from now! Start Botox around your mouth now and be Proactive! Sometimes this Botox around your lips can even make your lips appear fuller and younger!

Call for a consult about lip wrinkles and lines today! 480-987-4195

Dr. Keefe injects Botox for patients from Gilbert, Queen Creek, Tucson, Mesa, Pheonix and Paradise Valley and Scottsdale.

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