Lip Filler in Houston

Lips move constantly. Eating, talking, kissing - your lips are almost never at rest. A filler in the lip needs to flex with that motion, not sit there like a static piece of product. Restylane Kysse is engineered specifically for lip use with what Galderma calls XpresHAn Technology, which lets the filler maintain its shape under tension while staying flexible under motion.

Patients consistently tell me their lips feel like their own lips rather than feeling like product. That feedback is what keeps Kysse as my first reach for lips.

A typical first lip treatment with me uses half a syringe to one full syringe of Kysse. That is often less than patients expect when they come in. The reason: lips look different after the swelling settles. Day-of swelling makes the result look bigger than it will be at the two-week mark. If we put a full second syringe in at the first visit because the day-of look "seemed small," patients often end up overdone two weeks later.

So I do half to one syringe, see you back at two weeks, and we decide together if more is needed. About a third of new patients add a second visit; the rest are happy where we ended.

The lips have rich blood supply and constant mechanical motion. Both of those factors make HA filler metabolize faster than in most other areas. Plan on 6 to 9 months from a lip treatment, with most patients maintaining on a 7 to 8 month cycle.

• If you have an active cold sore or herpes outbreak we wait until it has resolved. Lip filler can reactivate latent virus.
• If you are pregnant or breastfeeding.
• If you have a history of granuloma or filler hypersensitivity.
• If you are coming in for a specific "look" - someone else's lips - rather than what would work with your own face.