LIPS AND THE MOUTH WHO KNEW THERE WAS SO MUCH TO LIPS

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Lip augmentation and surgery. Who knew there was so much to lips? Lips are important even if you are not Angelina Jolie. You won't believe how intricate lip and mouth movement and appearance is until you read the article at the Suture for a Living blog. "Our lips are very important in many ways:

Visual look of face

Food intake, drool prevention

Speech articulation

Playing musical instruments

Tactile sensory organ



"The Upper lip extends from the base of the nose superiorly, to the nasolabial folds laterally, and to the free edge of the vermilion border inferiorly.The lower lip (Labium inferioris) extends from the superior free vermilion edge superiorly, to the commissures laterally, and to the mandible inferiorly. The lower lip is usually somewhat larger (for youthful lips approximately twice as full as the upper)".



"The vermilion is the "colored" portion of the lips. The skin here is very thin. In light-skin people, the underlying blood vessels appear more readily through the skin which leads to their notable red coloring. With darker skin color, this effect is less prominent".

Lips Anatomy and Function