Plastic Surgeon Makes use of ‘Cupid Equation’ to Create Excellent Lips. See Earlier than and After (Unique)

• Dr. Ben Talei created the “Cupid Carry” process utilizing an algorithm 10 years in the past
• The higher lip elevate is a cosmetic surgery process that takes 30 to 60 minutes and requires native anesthesia
• Talei’s Cupid Lips Middle in West Hollywood, Calif., specializes within the process and expenses $5,500 for the surgical procedure

What if getting the lips you at all times dreamed of was as simple as 1, 2, 3?

It’s, if you happen to’re plastic surgeon Dr. Ben Talei, who developed a mathematical equation to provide sufferers the proper set of lips.

He calls it the cupid algorithm, and it is a formulation that he created to do his Cupid Carry — a $5,500, 30- to 60-minute process that is exploded in recognition.

“The Cupid Carry is a type of an higher lip elevate,” Talei explains to PEOPLE solely. “An higher lip elevate might be something that you just use to elevate your higher lip surgically. It could possibly be a minimize underneath the nostril like a bullhorn or a subnasal [shortening the distance between the nose and the upper lip]. It could possibly be a nook elevate [raising the ends of the upper lip], it could possibly be a direct one [removing skin over the upper lip]. The Cupid Carry is essentially the most pure, controllable method to elevate somebody’s lip: to shorten the peak of their philtrum [the groove between the lip and the nose], which may get longer with time.”

Dr. Talei says that by utilizing his algorithm, or “Cupid equation,” he can get the lips proper each single time, which is way tougher to do with different lip-lifting procedures. This could additionally assist sufferers look youthful and have a “softer” look, he says, as a result of it has a really “predictable” end result.

“You may really say, ‘OK, I’ll drop up this level, drop the opposite level, transfer this level,'” he says of how he works with the equation whereas mapping out a affected person’s lips. “And you may get the lip to a lovely symmetrical form every time utilizing this algorithm. And that is what the ‘CPID’ is, it is heart, paramedian, intermediate and diagonal. After which you should utilize that to regulate every thing underneath the nostril. Lateral to that, we simply use the outer line and the nasolabial fold to regulate the remainder of the form.”

The “CPID” equation, which Dr. Talei makes use of to measure a affected person’s face, finally grew to become “Cupid.” Not lengthy after, he coined the Cupid Carry. He jokes that “surgeons love acronyms,” so he was excited for the coincidence, particularly as a result of the fragile form of the highest lip is also known as the Cupid’s bow.

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The process itself, which Dr. Talei began creating round 10 years in the past, takes about 30 to 60 minutes underneath native anesthesia and the restoration is pretty minor. The surgeon says you might have stitches for 5 days and your lip will likely be “puffy” for a pair weeks, however the bounce-back is fast — and the process is everlasting, not like if you happen to get lip filler.

Talei has discovered that he is carried out Cupid Lifts on sufferers who’ve had their filler dissolved as a result of their lips have been weighed down over time. He additionally notes that the Cupid Carry might be carried out at the side of filler, particularly for sufferers with very skinny lips who’ve had a tough time with filler as a result of their lips merely can’t accommodate the filler within the first place. The elevate opens up the lip sufficient to be stuffed. “It brings [the upper lip] into the correct form and place,” he says.

There have been potential sufferers he is needed to flip away as a result of they’re simply not good candidates for a Cupid Carry, although. Why, you may ask?

“You have a look at their lip and it is excellent proportion,” he says of some individuals who ask for a session however in the end aren’t a match. “You have got a variety of these people who find themselves already nice they usually simply need higher. And also you simply inform them, ‘There is no such thing as a higher. You might be nice.'”

Dr. Talei says he turns away 40%-50% of potential sufferers. Another excuse persons are turned away is due to poor dentition. He says if folks already cannot shut their mouths correctly, exposing their tooth extra by doing an higher lip elevate will solely make it worse.

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Dr. Talei, who relies in Beverly Hills, Calif. and primarily operates out of the Beverly Hills Middle for Plastic and Laser Surgical procedure, has now carried out hundreds of Cupid Lifts and has taught the process to different plastic surgeons as effectively. He opened a Cupid Lips Clinic in West Hollywood, Calif., particularly for this process (and adjoining procedures) with a staff that he skilled, and there, sufferers can get the Cupid Carry for $5,500.

Dr. Talei himself is not doing as many Cupid Lifts as of late, he says — he has bigger procedures to are inclined to — however you may nonetheless get on his books for the lip elevate if you happen to insist. Nevertheless, the worth tag to get your lips carried out by the OG physician is rather more steep: He now expenses upwards of $20,000-$25,000.

For extra on the process, together with extra before-and-after photographs, try the web site.