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Scarred lips since childhood, any ideas for healing agents?

When I was very young I went face first into a coffee table and bit through both of my lips, two years after that I was hit in the face with a teeter-totter, since then it's been a battle to keep my lips smooth, they dry out, peel, are smooth for a day or two, and then it's a repeat. It's mostly the bottom one where my teeth went through the most. It's like a perfect print. (Dehydration, ASD+EDS, a little OCD, playing woodwinds, and a constant mask probably doesn't help). I'm allergic to lanolin and usually itch with cocoa butter, but I've tried carmex, burt's bees, a variety of other balms and chapstick, chopsaver, Medicine of the People's white sage, and various skin moisturizers. I assume I may be interfering too much and the problem may be too old to really fix but it's worth asking, does anyone have any ideas? I don't have the funds for cosmetic work and wouldn't spend it on such a thing if I did, frankly.

Thank you!
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Wowza!  Those both sound like extremely painful and traumatic events!  Have you ever seen a dermatologist? They may be able to do a laser treatment that would help most of all.  Everything else may just smooth the lips but not heal the scar.  I see you don't have any funds for cosmetic work but maybe if you have an idea of cost, you can save for such as well as get some additional recommendations for products that might work to reduce the appearance of the scar.  There are a plethora of products to try.  But it sounds like your very sensitive so hesitate to recommend anything.
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