Well, hello, hello, guys.

You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. Kay, Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon,

and today on my five-minute Friday, I'm going to talk to you all about the lip flip.

So what is the Botox lip flip? I think I've kind of popularized this notion with my Instagram videos.

So the lip flip is a really innovative technique that I use when I have patients who have a thin

upper lip and they need to get more pink of the upper lip showing.

I use small micro-droplet doses of Botox around the outside border of the lip.

And it has to be done very, very carefully.

Of course, if you give too much Botox around the mouth,

you can have a wonky smile or a weird paralysis or you can have your mouth pull to one

direction or another. So, suffice it to say that you've got to see a very experienced injector

and someone who's comfortable with this procedure. But if it's done correctly, and it's one of

my specialties, it's such a nice,

natural, lovely way to get some beautiful lipfulness without getting lip filler. So if you're

someone who's kind of new to the idea of wanting more lip volume and you're not sure if you want to do

lip filler, lip flip would be for you. I like to use the lip flip to get more of

that outside border of the lip to show. So take a look in your mirror, do a big smile,

and see if the borders of your lip kind of tuck in and curl under at the sides of the lip.

If you're seeing that, then you're definitely a

person who has overactive orbicularis orus muscles. And orbicularis oris is the name of the

muscle group that encircles the mouth or the labia. And it is a circular muscle. It down and inwards when we do actions like

puckering using a straw pursing the lips gargling all of those kind of actions

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