Wrinkles around mouth

pandora205

Hi Ladies,

I'm lucky to have fairly good skin with few wrinkles for my age (50s) except I've recently noticed vertical lines above my upper lip, which makes me look very disapproving - not a good look! I haven't smoked for over 30 years, wear sun screen, moisturise, use oil cleansing method, drink lots of water and not much coffee, etc.. Moisturiser wise I have used Total Effects and Philosophy Hope in a Jar both with good effect, and currently am using some Boots Evaluation Suite creams (very nice too).

Does anyone have any tips or recommended products? I wondered about facial exercises?

Thanks for help,

Pandora

daska

Do you eat enough fat?

Toothsmith

There's not an easy way to ask this - but are your teeth your own, or a denture? Also, do you have regular dental check-ups?

pandora205

Well yes I have sufficient fat - that couldn't be the problem.

And yes my teeth are my own (ie no dentures) but I did have a brace for two years and have since had some composite tooth bonding just for appearance (though nothing radical). Could it be the braces that have done it? I had a signficant overbite which is now corrected (thankfully).

With regard to check ups, I must have more than most as I have a regular dentist, an orthodontist and a specialist who did the composite work!

System

How old are you? I'm sure my elderly mother had to have new dentures as the ones she had for years didnt fit her mouth any more. I'm sure the dentist told her your gums shrink with age.



*goes off to look at her gums in the mirror for signs of shrinkage*

Hughjass

A few Botox injections in the upper lip, very few it shouldn't cost much, will make the lines much less apparent and give the top lip a slight up curl and plumping effect, it would only be noticeable to you but will make a definite difference.

jenniewb

I just wondered if you were or had been a smoker OP? What your talking about is quite common with smokers, if your not I hope I haven't offended you, was just a question/suggestion.

Toothsmith

pandora205 wrote: »

Could it be the braces that have done it? I had a signficant overbite which is now corrected (thankfully).

Not really.

The reason I asked about dentures is that once the teeth have gone, the bone that supported them slowly disappears. If you let dentures get too old, then they no longer support the lips properly, and you get quite wrinkly around the mouth. When new dentures are made, then they would be made with a bit more plastic to account for the bit less bone that the wearer will have. - But obviously this isn't relevent to you!

I asked about regular check ups because with a history of smoking, if you weren't a regular attender, it could be that an undiagnosed/untreated chronic gum problem was reducing the bone supporting your teeth which would have the same effect. - But again, as you do, then that's not the case either.

pollypenny

I have wrinkles around my mouth, too, which I hate. I've never smoked, have good teeth, but I realised years ago that 'my thinking face' involves pursed lips!

Bit late, I try to avoid thinking now!

daska

pandora205 wrote: »

Well yes I have sufficient fat - that couldn't be the problem.

It was just a thought, people on low fat diets can have a bit more of a problem with wrinkles.

Best of luck finding a solution

McKneff

Sorry but there is no cure for it, apart from |Botox, comes to us all missus, youre actually lucky that you have avoided them till you are in your fifties.

It's called Age.