Category: plastic surgery case study | skull reshaping

Plastic Surgery Case Study: Aesthetic Head Widening Skull Implants for the Scaphocephalic Narrow Head Shape

Understanding Scaphocephaly Scaphocephaly refers to a narrow head shape. In its most severe form—sagittal craniosynostosis—the head appears both very narrow and elongated due to premature closure of the sagittal suture. This medical condition is typically treated with early cranial vault remodeling surgery. However, most cases of scaphocephalic head shape are mild, purely aesthetic, and occur Read More…

Plastic Surge Case Study – Combined Bony and Soft Tissue Occipital Knob Reduction

Background: The occipital knob is a natural spike of bone on the visible end of the bony back of the head. Why it gets more visible in some people is not known although it appears to be more gender specific as I have seen it in many men but never yet in a woman. This Read More…

Techniques in Occipital Knob Skull Reduction

The occipital knob is a well known aesthetic skull deformity which falls into the category of more minor aesthetic skull reshaping surgery. It is easily recognizable as a midline protrusion on the back of the head at the lower end of the visible occipital bone. While it presents with varying degrees of severity it always Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Correction of the Combined Posterior Fontanelle Dip and Occipital Knob Protrusion For Back Of The Head Reshaping

Background: While the back of the head as an aesthetic unit is a single skull surface the bones that make it upon are not. The back of the head is comprised of the paired upper parietal bones and inferiorly by the single occipital bone. They are merged together by the inverted Y suture lines. As Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study: Large Four-Piece Custom Skull Implant for Head Widening

Background: The definitive method for aesthetic skull augmentation is a custom implant design. Not only is the method of implant design important, but also the material of which the implant is made. Unless the patient wants a long bicoronal scalp incision to place the implant, the implant material must be solid, but flexible. This is Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Skull Implant for Creating a Smooth Contouring Effect On The Forehead

Background: Custom skull implants are typically used for correcting various skull contour deficiences and often have some appreciable soze and thicknesses. While creating a smooth contour change is a necessary part of that typical form of augmentation it is not usually the sole reason for the patient to undergo the procedure. But custom skull implants Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Secondary Forehead and Back of Head Implant Overlays after Custom Head Widening Implant Placements

Background: Augmentations of various areas of the skull can be successfully done for a wide variety of head shape deficiencies. Such aesthetic skull implants work because of the good vascularity of the scalp and skull bone, the ability of the scalp to stretch to accommodate the underlying bone expansion and the use of custom implant Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Plagiocephaly Correction with a Custom Back of the Head Implant in the Thick Neck Male

Case Study: Plagiocephaly is one of the most recognized abnormality of the skull in adults and one of the more common seen. While it often has a more complete craniofacial effect its most significant deformation affects the back of the head. The severity of the flatness that occurs on the back of the head is Read More…

Technical Strategies – Mesh Implant for Small Surface Area Minimal Thickness Skull Contour Defect

Aesthetic skull augmentations today are most effectively done by a custom skull implant design. Gone are the days of the use of PMMA bone cements, which may be fine as an inlay method for skull bone defects which is their history. But PMMA bone cements is not a highly effective method as an onlay contouring Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Secondary Plagiocephaly Correction with Custom Skull Implant Over Pre-Existing Hydroxyapatite Cement

Background: The skull is prone to numerous contour deformations for which augmentation materials can be used to improve its shape. Plagiocephaly is the most recognized of all the deformational skull shape concerns. While it does affect the entire skull by far the most severely affected area is the back of the head one side being Read More…