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Lips
January 29, 2026
Vertical vs Horizontal Lip Injection Techniques – What the Evidence Really Shows
I analysed a cadaver study that gets cited frequently as definitive proof that vertical injections carry more risk than horizontal techniques when tre...
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January 22, 2026
Restoration of Older Lips: The Psychology, Aesthetics, and Anatomy You Need to Understand
The techniques that make 25-year-old lips look stunning, simply don’t apply the same way to older patients. Lips change dramatically with age, and a...
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December 18, 2025
The Missing Skills in Lip Filler Training: Why Technical Knowledge Isn’t Enough
You’ve put in the work on anatomy and technique, debated cannula versus needle until you’re exhausted. But here’s what nobody tells ...
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December 11, 2025
Lip Filler Lumps and Bumps: What Injectors Need to Know
You’ve just completed a lip procedure, the patient looks great and leaves happy. Two days later, they message you about a lump. Sound familiar? ...
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November 20, 2025
Heart Lips, Keyhole Lips, No-Needle Filler & More
Evidence-Based Guidance for Injectors When patients walk into your clinic requesting specific lip trends they’ve seen on social media, how do yo...
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November 18, 2025
Lip Taping After Filler: Does It Really Work?
A recent trend you might have seen on Instagram has aesthetic practitioners taping up their patients’ lips after filler injections, claiming it ...
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October 28, 2025
Where’s the Artery? Mastering 3D Lip Anatomy for Safer Injections
When injecting lips, one question matters above all others: Where’s the artery? If you don’t know the answer, you shouldn’t be inj...
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October 23, 2025
Lip Anatomy Lesson for Injectors: 3D Understanding
Why Resolution and 3D Understanding Change Everything For aesthetic injectors, few areas generate as much debate and anxiety as lip treatments. The qu...
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September 11, 2025
How to Treat the Horizontal Lip Crease
A Complete Guide for Aesthetic Injectors Most of the lines that patients complain about when it comes to lips are vertical, but there’s a minori...
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August 26, 2025
Understanding the Role of the Orbicularis Oris in Lip Form
Anatomy-Led Lip Filler Techniques Why mastering lip anatomy is essential for exceptional aesthetic results When patients come in requesting fuller, mo...
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August 21, 2025
The Ageing Lip – Anatomy & Process
Lips are one of the most expressive features of the human face. They communicate youth, vitality, sensuality, and character. However, like every other...
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August 19, 2025
Lip Injection Depth and Anatomy Guide: Small Lips
Preventing Lip Filler Complications in Small Lips The Critical Importance of Depth Control Depth control represents the most important aspect of lip i...
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August 14, 2025
How to Inject Small Lips: Advanced Lip Filler Techniques
For Natural Enhancement The Challenge of Small Lip Treatment How do you treat small/thin lips to get a good result as well as manage the patient’...
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August 12, 2025
Mastering Natural Lip Enhancement Results
From Average Injector to Expert Breaking Through the Average Injector Barrier The difference between an average lip injector and an expert lies not in...
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August 7, 2025
The Lip Assessment Guide
How to Analyze & Treat Lips Like an Expert The Foundation of Expert Lip Treatment Have you ever finished a lip treatment, showed your patient the ...
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July 11, 2024
Tutorial: Transforming challenging lips, blending lateral lip dominance
As an aesthetic clinician, you may be faced with tackling the challenge of treating a complex lip case, especially where there has been previous treat...
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April 4, 2024
How to massage lips after dermal filler to avoid lumps
Lumps of dermal filler in the lips can be a real cause for concern for patients; therefore, you must ensure you carry out a post-procedure massage aft...
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December 14, 2023
How to avoid lip filler lumps and treat them when they happen
The development of lumps and bumps in the lips following a lip filler enhancement or augmentation procedure is a frequently reported side effect. Unde...
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August 24, 2023
Lip fillers: Common injection technique errors and mistakes
Many aesthetic clinicians make the same common mistakes when injecting lip fillers – using the wrong technique, poor patient selection, and aiming f...
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May 15, 2023
How to diagnose, manage and avoid a haematoma in the lips
Getting the diagnosis right when presented with a confusing complication in the lips can be tricky and often causes panic for many aesthetic practitio...
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April 24, 2023
How to reduce the risk of occlusion in the philtrum (columella artery)
In 2018, a medical colleague of Dr Tim’s got in touch when they experienced their first vascular occlusion of the columella artery – they dealt wi...
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April 17, 2023
How to book in a patient who asks: “How much for 1ml?”
You receive a DM or telephone call from a potential new patient… you are excited, right? Then, oh no, your heart sinks when you read or hear their f...
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March 20, 2023
Treating older lips with fillers: 3 crucial areas for injection
It can be more challenging to treat older lips with dermal fillers due to age-related changes, therefore it is crucial that you understand where to fo...
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March 9, 2023
How to create natural looking lip filler results
Fashions regularly change and it is no different for beauty, aesthetics, and lip fillers; this year (as predicted by Dr Tim) is the year of filler rev...
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March 2, 2023
TikTok lip filler trend: Should you offer lip taping for butterfly lips?
The newest trend to hit the facial aesthetic sector is ‘lip taping’, or ‘strip lips, for ‘butterfly lips’. The taping is performed as part o...
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January 5, 2023
Dissolving Lip Filler: What You Need To Know About Hyaluronidase
One of the biggest trends of 2022 and into 2023 is the number of lip filler reversals or elective dissolving procedures performed by aesthetic clinici...
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December 29, 2022
8D Lip Design: how to choose a dermal filler for lips
The skilled aesthetic injector understands that there are multiple factors controlling the physical result of a lip augmentation procedure, alongside ...
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December 19, 2022
8D Lip Design: Choosing your injection tools, needle, or cannula?
Like a member of an orchestra about to play a symphony, one of the keys to success with lip filler treatment lies in your choice of instrument – bet...
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December 12, 2022
8D Lip Design: technical core of delivering lip filler injections
To understand how to successfully perform lip filler treatments, you must get to grips with the foundational principles behind choosing the best injec...
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December 5, 2022
8D Lip Design: the importance of lip anatomy knowledge
As healthcare professionals and aesthetic clinicians, our objective with any treatment is to achieve the best results with the least amount of risk, t...
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