Patients can typically have a lip lift performed and go home the same day.

Patients can have the procedure under local anaesthetic & sedation (where you are asleep and breathe for yourself) or can be asleep with a general anaesthetic.

The incision for a lip lift in the crease at the base of the nose under the nostrils.

The skin is removed and the scar is hidden in the natural crease around the nostrils and base of the nose.