Category: forehead augmentation | forehead recontouring | technical strategies

Technical Strategies – Pretrichial Approach to Forehead Craniotomy Defect Reconstruction

Craniotomies that involve the frontal and/or frontotemporal bones are commonly done for a variety of intracranial problems such as bleeding from trauma or for access to tumors. While the bone flap is put back into position using low profile plates and screws and the detached temporalis muscle resuspended, residual skull deformities are common. Frontal skull Read More…

Case Study: Forehead Augmentation for Forehead Horns

Background: The desirable features and shape of the male forehead is well known. It consists of a brow bone prominence, a superior brow bone break and a smooth slightly convex shape of the upper forehead to the hairline. A wider or more square forehead shape is often seen as an asset as well. Some put Read More…

Case Study: Removal and Reconstruction of a Large Forehead Osteoma

Background: Bony raised bumps on the forehead are not rare and are known as osteomas. They occur due to the development of normal bone under the periosteum of the non-hair bearing forehead. They are benign overgrowths of bone that are non-mobile. They are thought to usually be initially associated with a perforating vein through the Read More…

Technical Strategies in Plastic Surgery – Fat Injections for Brow Bone Break Reduction

Fat injections have tremendous popularity due to their autologous (natural) source, ease of graft procurement and ability to place the graft in a scar-free manner. While fat graft retention is far from assured, they have been used in a tremendously diverse number of applications where more soft tissue volume is needed. One such unique application Read More…

Contouring Techniques for Forehead Bony Lumps Bumps and Ridges

While the skull is prone to have a variety of lumps and bumps, they are more of an aesthetic concern when they occur on the forehead. Any forehead irregularity becomes a very noticeable entity as the surface area of the forehead occupies up to 1/3 of the visible face. Commonly seen as a smooth surface, Read More…

Forehead Augmentation in Men

The forehead occupies a major part of one’s appearance, comprising the entire upper third of the face. The variable part of anyone’s forehead is the hairline, particularly in men. Most male foreheads get longer with age for the obvious reason of a receding hairline. The relative constant features of the forehead that are easily Read More…

Gender Differences in Forehead Recontouring Surgery

The forehead occupies a major part of the face, up to one-third of its total length. It is a major contributor to facial aesthetics even though it appears largely as a blank slate. Because it has few identifiable features (only the eyebrows) other than wrinkles, it is often overlooked as a facial feature which 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 Contouring and the Coronal Incision

Contouring of the forehead is an uncommon procedure in plastic surgery but the techniques to do it are not. Whether it is to reduce frontal bossing, soften prominent brow bones, or change the slope of the forehead, the forehead can be reshaped in a variety of dimensions. Most reduction changes are more subtle to Read More…