Category: plastic surgery case study | skull reshaping

Background:  The shape of the head is determined by the interface between the exposed bony surfaces of the skull and the overlying temporal muscles on its sides.  This creates five surfaces (four sides and a top) which influences the appearance of the head from 360 degree viewing angles. Because any one of these skull surfaces Read More…

Background: The skull is prone to a wide variety of surface contour irregularities across its broad areas including lumps, bumps and indentations. Many indentations or ‘dents’ are the direct result of trauma that often has occurred early in life when the skull is thinner and more easily deformed. They can also occur much later in Read More…

Background: Flat areas on the back of the head are one of the most common aesthetic concerns of the skull. They occur in a wide variety of shapes and degrees of deformation from unilateral vs bilateral, symmetric vs asymmetric, moderate to severe flattening to one vs multiple skull surface involvements. Understanding the 3D shape of Read More…

Background: There are five surfaces to the skull, all having their own separate planes. The sides of the head have the most acute or well defined planes with a distinct obtuse angular separation. Two of the sagittal skull surfaces (top and back of the head) have a bit more curved surface distinctions. The forehead is Read More…

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…