All surgeries carry with them an inherit possibility of having some type of complication or risk associated with them. Since the lip reduction procedure is a surgery, although it may be considered minimally invasive, it is still a surgical procedure and therefore carries its own list of potential risks and complications associated with it.

There are several possible complications associated with the surgery. For starters, there will be some form of anesthetic utilized during the procedure and as with any type of anesthesia there is the chance of having an allergic reaction to that anesthetic. Furthermore, there may be the chance of having a hematoma, which is just an advanced way of saying that there might be some bleeding associated with the procedure. There is the chance of having a seroma which once again is just a fancy term which means that there may be fluid build up in the lips after undergoing a lip reduction surgery. Of course there is the chance of having numbness in the lips and general mouth region as a result of the procedure but this numbness is only temporary and will be gone by the end of the 7th day following a lip reduction surgery.

As with any plastic or cosmetic surgical procedure there is always the possibility of asymmetry. What this means is that after undergoing the lip reduction procedure it is completely possible for one side of the lips to look different than the other, and thus they are no longer symmetrical or the same. The lip reduction surgery can also affect the way that your smile looks if not for any other reason but the fact that a portion of the previous mass of the lips has been removed.

Above all it is very important to discuss with your surgeon prior to undergoing the surgery what exactly your expectations of the outcome are. The reasons for this is simply for the fact that many of the dissatisfied recipients of a plastic or cosmetic surgery can be attributed to not giving their surgeon enough information regarding their expectations as well as they possibly have too high of expectations to begin with.