Lip depigmentation in patches or in a spot

[Soup92]

I have consantly suffered from cold sores which has resulted with some scaring on my lips, The scarring has removed some areas of the pigment from areas on my lips were i had the sores.

But around 3 or 4 weeks ago on my left upper lip there is an area about 1 centimeter in size right along the border of my lip, this area is thin and is lossing color for a reason that i can not figure out. You can faintly see the distict line were the pigment should be, also when i squeeze my lips together i can see that this area there is white normal skin tone where there should be red/pinkish pigment. I have also been wearing a retainer that i recently noticed is pokin above the area where the actual depigmentation is occuring.

Could there be a correlation between the retainer and the loss of pigment? I am worried that it will stay like this forever, What treatments can be done to reverse this??? Any help would be greatly appreciated

[gravity8]

I am having the same problem. And it's been more than two years now. The ointment suggested by a doc didn't help. Did you ever find a solution?

[Soup92]

sorry to reply to my post again, but i am constantly feeling a tingling along that edge of my lip were the spot has occured.

[Soup92]

PLEASE HELP ME

it may not seem as if this is a big deal, but it has cost me a great amount of stress and social discomfort, and feelings of self conciousness