Category: plastic surgery case study | skull reshaping

Background: Overgrowths of the skull can occur in numerous areas from frontal bossing anteriorly to occipital buns posteriorly. Some have classic appearances and descriptions as in the aforementioned while others are less well known. One of these less well known overgrowths is the elevated or over projecting crown of the head. Somewhat like that of Read More…

Background: The occipital bone is one of eight cranial bones that make up the skull. It makes up the lower half of the visible back of head but what is seen is less than half of its entire size. The rest goes under the neck muscles and wraps around the vertebrae and spinal cord. Given Read More…

Background: The concept of skull reduction is like the reduction of almost any skeletal structure in the body…there are limits. The length and thickness of the anatomy is one controlling factor along with how well the overlying soft tissues shrink and contract down around the reduced bone. Thus most aesthetic reductions have to be given Read More…

Background: The five surfaces of the skull are prone to a wide variety of surface contour irregularities. In theory all five surfaces could be equally affected by these shape deformations but that is not so. Three of the five skull surfaces are completely bony but the sides are covered with muscle. Since almost all skull Read More…

Background: The skull is simplistically a collection of five almost flat to very convex surfaces. All of these skull surfaces usually have smooth outer contours but are prone to a wide variety of possible irregularities from either congenital, traumatic or pathologic origins. A significant number of such surface contour irregularities are related to the suture Read More…

Background: The skull is prone to a wide variety of aesthetically undesired shapes from areas of flatness to excessive prominences. Many of these appear in specific patterns and can be given descriptive names by their presentation. Some are associated with an adjoining suture line. While congenital craniosynostoses skull deformities are the most well known they Read More…

Background: Patients concerned about their head shape, particularly that of deficiencies (areas of flatness), have a long standing time period of awareness. Almost every skull augmentation patient I have treated tells the story of their concern and it almost always dates back to their childhood or teenage years. In men it can be a more Read More…