Category: plastic surgery case study | skull reshaping

Background: The flat back of the head is one of the most common aesthetic head shape deformities. There are multiple causes of a flat back of the head but the most common is deformational, meaning that external forces either in utero or after birth  put pressure on the young thin forming skull bones causing that Read More…

Background: Skull implant augmentation is a very successful strategy for flat or underdeveloped head shapes. In their most common use there is a single skull surface that is flat or non-rounded and a skull implant is designed to treat it. Such skull implants are placed in a single surgery as their aesthetic needs usually falls Read More…

Background: The skull is a collection of numerous bone surfaces all of which are curved or convex. There are five skull surfaces…top, front, back and two sides. Each of these skull surfaces has a unique aesthetic shape to them which are often unappreciated. The back of the head is more rounded while the front of Read More…

Background: The brachycephalic skull shape is primarily identified by its effects on the back of the head. A more complete flatness occurs in brachycephaly than in plagiocephaly with the classic very flat and wide back of the head. The increased width may be partially illusionary because of the lack of projection but there is usually Read More…

Background: The skull can develop various areas of flatness or underdevelopment.  Such flat areas of the head are particularly common on the back of the head. While the most common back of the head deficiency is due to plagiocephaly, with one side of the back of the head being flat, such lack of skull projection Read More…

Background:  The shape of the skull has been described as most aesthetic if it follows the Golden Ratio. This is described as the length and shape of two arcs between the nasion and the inion subdivided by the bregma in profile. These two profile arcs, the bregma-inion (BI) and nasion-bregma (NB), ideally should be in Read More…

Background:  The skull is an overall oblong shape that has five distinct surfaces to it. (front, back , top and two sides) The main anatomic ‘dividing line’ between all of these surface of the bony temporal line. This is a distinct raised ridge of bone that starts at the tail of the brow bone anteriorly Read More…

Background:  The back of the head and concerns about its shape account for almost half of aesthetic skull reshaping patients in my experience. Concerns typical involve asymmetries from plagiocephaly, various types of occipital bone protrusions (knobs and buns) and flattening of part or all of the back of the head. The two techniques for back Read More…