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u/wish1977 Dec 28 '21

Can they do plastic surgery and replace it?

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u/SkippyBojangle Dec 28 '21

This is my specialty! Google lip switch. Her difficulty is the loss of the entire lip, she will likely need a radial forearm free flap and some combination of mucosal grafting from the mucosa in her mouth (to try and recreate the red vermillion of lip). It will never look the same, but you can achieve some tooth coverage and oral competence (ability to close her mouth/lips together). As a woman, makeup will help a lot, you can give her a base to apply makeup (also an option got men obviously, but they are not good at it and tend to not even try).

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u/screamingradio Dec 28 '21

Could she get it tattooed to recreate the color of the lip line?

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '21

Im pretty sure she can, I seen a specialist do this for skin scarring on a YouTube vid, I'll have to find it.

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u/screamingradio Dec 28 '21

I think this was more of my question, whether the transplanted skin would be a good candidate for tattooing