Category: plastic surgery case study | skull reshaping

Background: While the shape of the skull is generally round over most of its surfaces, this round shape can be affected by a variety of congenital sources. Premature fusion of the cranial sutures and external deformation forces are the most common reasons abnormal (non-round, flat or concave) skull shapes occur. One of the most under Read More…

Background: Plagiocephaly is a well known aesthetic head shape deformity in which the origin of the name means twisted skull. When viewed from above the skull shape is also often called cranioscoliosis based on its axis of rotation. in the majority of cases this rotation is counter clockwise, meaning the right back of the head Read More…

Background:  While the most common non-synostotic congenital skull deformity is plagiocephaly, less commonly seen is its ‘cousin’ brachycephaly. As opposed to a unilateral flattening on the back of the head in plagiocephaly, brachycephaly is when the entire back of the head is flat. While it can have synostotic origins like some forms of plagiocephaly most Read More…

Background: While bony bumps can appear on the skull at any location for a variety of reasons, the most classic and consistent skull bump is the occipital knob. This discrete bump of bone occurs at the base of the skull at the back of the head in the midline. It is consistent in its location Read More…

Background: The shape of the skull is typically perceived as a smooth curved on all sides. And this is relatively accurate with the exception of the front and back of the head. In men the inferior part of the forehead will have some degree of brow bone prominence on the lower due the developmental the Read More…

Background: Many types of skull reduction procedures are what I call ‘spot’ reductions. This means that specific raised areas of the skull can be selectively reduced by a bone burring technique. These include such areas as occipital knobs, forehead horns and sagittal crests to name some of the most common spot skull reduction areas.  They Read More…

Background: The shape of the head is controlled largely by the thickness and contours of the skull bones. While the skull is often perceived as being a uniform set of bones encasing the brain, it varies considerably across its five surfaces. (forehead, top of head, back of head and paired temporal regions) The back of Read More…