Perma Facial Implant, January 2009

Since January of 2009, here at the Austin Plastic Surgery Institute, we have offered the Perma Facial Implant^TM surgical device to our patients seeking permanent lip augmentation results.  The FDA-approved Perma Facial Implant^TM is a solid, silicone elastomeric implant that is inserted, surgically, in a procedure that takes approximately one hour to perform. 

These lip enhancement surgeries are carried out in the office using a local anesthetic or dental block, and may be combined with other surgical procedures.  Because the Perma Facial Implant^TM isn’t injected, the results are much more enduring, and patients no longer need to make return appointments throughout the year for repeated treatments.  The Perma Facial Implant^TM comes in a variety of sizes to fit your desires and needs. 

According to Dr. Fred Wilder, a surgeon at Austin Plastic Surgery Institute, the Perma Facial Implant is quite the remarkable development in lip augmentation technology:

"For many years, plastic surgeons have used a host of different techniques in an effort to provide fuller, more youthful lips.  Some people have naturally thin lips. And as we age, we lose volume. The goal has been to find a safe, but reliable solution. Your body’s own fat is arguably the safest, but the ability of the transplanted fat to survive with all of the motion that occurs in the lips is significantly hampered, and the results we often get are not as good as we would like. Previous implants have been fraught with complications, and have been very difficult to remove – in over 20 years of practice I have never previously used an artificial lip implant. However, the new Perma lip implant has proven very reliable, safe, both easy to place and easy to remove, and gives consistent results.  It is becoming the procedure of choice for me to replace deficient lip volume."

The surgeons at Austin Plastic Surgery Institute recommend you schedule a consultation to discuss your candidacy as a Perma Facial Implant^TM recipient for lip augmentation, and to answer any questions or address any concerns you may have regarding this or any of the other lip enlargement procedures available at APSI.