Category: brow bone augmentation | custom facial implants | technical strategies

Technical Strategies – Endoscopic Custom Brow Bone Implant Placement

Brow bone augmentation can be done using a variety of techniques and materials. The most common approach has been an open scalp or hairline incision using bone cements to do the buildup of the brow bones. While effective it does necessitate a long incision that is fairly distant from the implantation site and the final Read More…

Techniques in Placement of the Custom Brow Bone Implant

Brow bone augmentation is often desired and requested by men for a more masculine appearance. While injectable fillers and fat can provide some temporary augmentative effects, a sustained and stronger brow bone effect requires placement of a non-resorbable material. While an implant would be such a permanent method, there is no preformed brow bone implants Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Brow Bone Implant Augmentation in Men

Background: One of the main characteristics of the male forehead are the brow bones. They usually are more pronounced than the projection of the forehead creating a brow bone break between the two structures. Brow bones occur in men due to the larger growth of the underlying frontal air sinuses, a result of a Read More…

Case Study: Endoscopic Placement of Custom Brow Bone Implant

Background: The forehead occupies one-third of the face and has a significant role to play in overall facial aesthetics. One component of the forehead is the prominence of the supraorbital rims, also known as the brow bones. How prominent they are affects the shape of the forehead and the appearance of the eyes. The more Read More…

The Uniqueness of Male Plastic Surgery – Facial Procedures

The facial aging process is one that is well known as everyone will eventually see it on their face. The eyes get heavy, the brows descend, the cheek fall, jowls develop and the neck sags. Women become concerned earlier in the aging process and proceed to do procedures to treat or slow it down in Read More…

Brow Augmentation by Fat Injections

One of the reasons that fat grafting has become so popular in plastic surgery is its versatility. Because of small cannula delivery techniques, fat grafts can literally be placed just about anywhere in any amounts. This has led to fat grafting becoming a near universal method for soft tissue augmentation and, more selectively, bony augmentation. Read More…

Eyebrow Rejuvenation with Fat Injections

Fat grafting to the face, done by injection, has become incredibly popular in the past decade. The recognition that most faces lose fat volume as they age has led to fat grafting done alone or in conjunction with other facial lifting procedures. One such area of volume addition in the aging face is that of Read More…

Common Questions on Forehead Reshaping and Contouring

What influence does the forehead have on one’s appearance? The forehead is a very prominent and visible facial area. While it is not the most dominant facial feature, it does have an influence on one’s appearance in numerous ways. The forehead does have an influence on gender appearance. In men, the brow ridge (bossing or Read More…

Options in Brow Bone and Forehead Augmentation

The forehead has a variety of shapes that do differ based on gender. Men will tend to have flatter fuller foreheads with more prominent brow bones (supraorbital ridges) while women’s foreheads will usually be softer, less full, and with flatter brow bones that tend to angle off into the temporal region. Whether it be Read More…

Forehead and Brow Bone Augmentation using PMMA Bone Cement

Expanding or enlarging the forehead to a more desireable contour is most commonly considered in adults or teenagers who have had a congenital skull deformity. Most of these had some form of craniosyostosis, with or without early craniofacial surgery, and are now left with forehead irregularities, depressions, or a forehead that severely slopes to Read More…