Case #6234 - Valentine Mouth Rejuvenation (Lip Lift) Patient had valentine corner of the mouth lift along with upper lip shortening (bullhorn lip shortening). The distance between her upper lip and the base of her nose was too long, contributing her upper lip to turn inward.
The inferior orbital fissure (IOF) lies in the floor of the orbit inferior to the superior orbital fissure and it is bounded superiorly by the greater wing of sphenoid, inferiorly by maxilla and orbital process of palatine bone and laterally by t...
Near the inferior orbital fissure the zygoma thins, and removal of bone in this region typically exposes the buccal fat; the buccal fat can be cauterized both to reduce its volume, allowing outward prolapse of orbital tissues, and also to keep the buccal fat from flowing into the surgical field and obstructing further drilling.