It might not be reducing the size of the mouth/lips it might be more
jaw surgery to make the lips meet as alot of people if their chin is
recessed it would pull the mouth open exposing the teeth giving a
bucktooth appearance?

shiloh

--- In cosmeticandplasticsurgery@yahoogroups.com, "haymarket326"
<haymarket326@y...> wrote:
> I recently read an article entitled "Changing Face of Chinese
Women"
> (The Dominon Monday 12 March 2001). The following passage caught
my
> interest:
>
> "For 23-year-old Li Yuan...fly-by-night beauty parlours will be
the
> only hope of getting the face she so desperately wants. Li has had
> surgery on her eyes four times and an operation to shrink her wide
> mouth..."
>
> An operation for reducing the size of a wide mouth? Has anyone
else
> heard of such a thing?