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Basic Concepts of Transgender Male to Female Brow Bone Reduction

In facial feminization surgery (FFS), forehead recontouring is an important one-third of the facial changes needed. There may be a few patients in which burring of the brow bone is sufficient to reshape the entire superior orbital rim. But most male to female brow bone reductions of any significance require the well described type III Read More…

Concepts in Female Brow Bone Reduction

Cis-gender females undergo brow bone reduction much less frequently than men as it would be unusual for them to have a significant brow bone protrusion. These smaller protrusions do not usually require a bone flap setback technique as the amount of reduction needed can be done by bone burring alone. If the reduction needed is Read More…

Concepts in Male Brow Bone Reduction

While brow bone reduction is done in both men and women, the techniques may be different based on the amount of brow bone reduction required. In my experience most men that consider and undergo reduction of their brow bone prominences do so because they are extremely large and have a dramatic impact on the perception Read More…

The Healing of Brow Bone Reduction Flaps

Brow bone reduction surgery is a common forehead reshaping procedure in my practice and is done for three specific indications. Men that have very prominent ‘Neanderthal’ brow bones seek it to make their facial appearance less strong. Male to female patients have it done to create a gender appearance transition. Lastly patients that have a Read More…

OR Snapshots – Brow Bone Reduction by Burring

Brow bone reduction is typically associated with two types of patients which are equally split in numbers in my experience. The first is the male who has very strong brow bones, Neanderthal-like, that sticks out very strongly. The second is the transgender male to female patient who also has prominent brow bones due to their Read More…

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