why do lips go numb?

Question

My lips go numb almost daily for hours at a time what could be causing this?

Answer 1

Well, they shouldn't: To answer your question cold, medicinal preparations. And often overlooked but it's true, migraine headaches can have an effect of causing lips and other oral structures to be tingly and numb.

Answer 2

? intermittent: If the numbness is permanent then damage to the nerves supplying the sensations to lips has occurred from some injury or diease. If intermittent then it may be stress related issue

Answer 3

Merits evaluation.: Although hyperventilation and low blood calcium level have been associated with peri-oral numbness, it could occur as a side-effect of a medication including an allergy or autoimmune reaction. This merits an evaluation by ones doctor.

Answer 4

No: Cleft lips and cleft palates are surgically corrected by a cranio-facial reconstruction team that includes oral surgeons, plastic surgeons, ear-nose-throat surgeons, etc... Later, dentists and orthodontists straighten the teeth and add teeth implants if needed.

Answer 5

No: Plastic surgeon or maxilla-facial surgeon is the doctor of choice.

Answer 6

Sometimes: There are oral maxillofacial surgeons who are trained to do cleft palate and even cleft lip repairs. This specialty is a dental specialty and the vast majority are dentists. So, the answer is a complicated "sometimes".

Answer 7

Yes: Oral and maxillofacial surgeons are dentists that continue their training to include facial surgeries and repairs. Many cleft teams are run by dentists but also include plastic surgeons and ents.

Answer 8

Cleft lip repair: Oral surgeons and or orofacial plastic surgeons can fix cleft lips. general dentists are not qualified to do this

Answer 9

Yes: Yes, smoking not only cause wrinkles around your mouth, it causes wrinkles elsewhere on your face.

Answer 10

Yes: The more you purse your lips, the more you will break the lines down in your skin... Treatment usually consists of laser or chemical peel, botox, and possibly fillers like juvederm or restylane (dermal fillers). Best advice = stop smoking.

Answer 11

Yes: Smoking speeds up the normal aging process leading to wrinkles. This occurs as early as 5-10 years after starting smoking & the effects are magnified with sun exposure. The skin damage is from the nicotine which causes narrowing of the blood vessels impairing blood flow to your skin leading to decreased oxygen, nutrients & vitamins. Also collagen & elastin fibers are damaged by toxins in smoke.

Answer 12

Botox,fillers,laser: Depending on how deep your wrinkles are, lines around the lip can be treated with a combination of Botox (reducing pursing motion of the lips), fillers (injections into the deeper lines), and laser resurfacing to address the fine lines.

Answer 13

Laser/Chem/Botox: I like to start with laser options (true resurfacing) for the best chance at "correction". Chemical peels can be utilized too, but sometimes lasers are more predictable. In some circumstances fillers can help to camouflage lip lines, but are certainly not a magic wand for this application. Botox can help with wear and tear if you chronically purse your lips out of habit (or smoking).

Answer 14

Wrinkles on lips: Retin- a, dermabrasion, carbon dioxide laser, fraxel restore laser, fraxel repair laser, fraxel clear and brilliant laser, portrait plasma resurfacing, and minute doses of Botox in some patients, as an off-label procedure can help. Restylane (dermal fillers) and juvederm fillers can help too. No smoking and use sunscreen.

Answer 15

Erbium lase: Scitpn fractionated erbium os another option with a fast healing tome of 3-4 days. The period of redness is limited compared to carbon dioxide lasers. Deeper wrinkles may require more than one session with a fractionated laser. Erbium can be isedon darker skin types.

Answer 16

Laser, Botox, filler: Carbon dioxide (co2) laser is best for deep wrinkles. Fractional co2 (active fx, deepfx, re:pair) good for moderate wrinkles. Erbium laser and fraxel (re:store, re:fine) for milder wrinkles and also safer on darker skin. Chemical acid peels (moderate to deep) are an option. Fillers (ie: restylane, (dermal fillers) juvederm) and Botox may also be necessary.

Answer 17

Fillers: Lips thin with age due to loss of volume on the face. This causes a turning in of the lip. Add volume to lips by using fillers like juvederm or Restylane (dermal fillers) to help define and augment them.

Answer 18

Badly: Smoking affects "lip lines" in two ways: 1. The repetitive movement around the lips as a result of puckering repetitvely can lead to vertical lines around the mouth. 2. More importantly, smoking can lead to elastic fiber and collagen degeneration in the skin, which as a result, can lead to sagging and wrinkling of the perioral skin.

Answer 19

Dries and ages them: The lips are basically composed of the same tissue as the rest of your skin, at least on the surface, and smoking's effects on reducing skin elasticity and causing premature aging and wrinkling are seen in the lips as well. There also may be darkening of the lips. There is every reason to stop smoking, even just for your ego and to look and feel better. Stopping will help u live longer/healthier.

Answer 20

Mucous cyst: This can represent cyst from gland in lip. It may be result of trauma from tooth. It will not go away but it can temporarily shrink with the use of a wet tea bag on the inner lip.This ma require mior surgical procedure.

Answer 21

Oral lesion: There are many possibilities: leukoplakia, a papilloma, a small fibroma, even a tumor. I would see your dentist or an ent.

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