Category: skull reshaping

The Basic Concepts of the Two Stage 3D Skull Implant Augmentation Process

The use of custom skull implants is a standard and effective method in my practice for almost all types of aesthetic skull augmentations. While any shape and size of custom skull implant can be designed that does not mean, however, that it can be successfully placed. The scalp is a tight enveloping soft tissue layer Read More…

Technical Strategies – Hand Modification for Custom Skull Implant Edging

Custom skull implant designs are the most effective approach to just about any aesthetic head augmentation problem. By using a preformed implant with a design based on the patient’s 3D skull CT scan the desired head shape change is more likely to be achieved than using older bone cement techniques where intraoperative hand shaping of Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study- Back of the Head Reshaping with Occipital Bone Reduction and Nuchal Ridge Skull Implant

Background: The shape of the back of the head is often overlooked when there is hair to cover it. But for men who have limited hair coverage or, even more relevantly a shaved head, the shape of the back of the head takes on almost as much aesthetic significance as the front of the head. Read More…

The Positional Stability of Custom Skull Implants As Seen By The Challenges of Their Removal

Custom skull implants are the premier method of aesthetic skull augmentation. They are superior to older style bone cement skull augmentations due to the ability to achieve a much more significant augmentation effect and an assured smooth shape through a small incision. Because it is an implant one of the most common questions from patients Read More…

Technical Strategies – The Wavy Scalp Incision in Aesthetic Skull Reshaping Surgery

All forms of skull reshaping surgery require incisions to perform them. Like most of aesthetic surgery the access incisions and the scars that they create are a tradeoff to achieve the desired aesthetic result. While in many procedures these scars are fairly hidden and do not represent a visible tradeoff, such can not be said Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Combined Head Reshaping with Custom Back Of Head Skull Implant, Sagittal Ridge Reduction and Right Temporal Reduction in the Shaved Head Male

Background: Flatness and asymmetries of the back of the head are some of the most common head reshaping concerns. This is particularly relevant in the male who has a shaved head or very closely cropped haircut. Such patients make up the vast majority of back of the head reshaping surgeries. Men early in their life Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Five Year Long Term Correction of the Peaked Head Shape Deformity With Sagittal Ridge Reduction And A Custom Parasagittal Skull Implant

Background: There are a wide variety of adult skull shape deformities some of which fit into standard shapes. One of these is the peaked head shape which can be easily recognized. When seen frontally the head has an inverted V shape or looks like a rooftop. This appears as a high sagittal ridge with narrow Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Skull Implant For The Correction Of The Flat Back of The Head In Male Plagiocephaly

Background: Plagiocephaly is the most well known congenital/developmental skull deformity outside that of the craniosynostoses. Because the skull shape deformations may be mild to moderate in severity and there are no functional neurologic sequelae associated with them, it is presumed by some patients and practitioners in particular that there is no reasonable treatment for the Read More…

Technical Strategies – Intraoperative Secondary Reduction of Custom Skull Implants

The use of custom skull implants brings to head reshaping what implants have done for every other face and body area. It has opened up new aesthetic possibilities that patients previously thought were never possible. Since there are no standard skull implants presently and given the unique characteristics of everyone’s skull shape, a custom implant Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Low Back Of The Head Augmentation With A Custom Skull Implant Design Onto The Neck Muscles

Background: Augmentation of a deficient of flat back of the head is one of the most common skull reshaping requests. Most likely this area of the skull experiences the greatest deformational forces between lying in the womb as a fetus and in sleeping positions in infancy and childhood. There are also certain ethnic groups that Read More…