Category: skull reshaping | technical strategies

Technical Strategies – Custom 3D Skull Implant Intraoperative Positioning

Custom 3D implants are, by far, the most effective method for any form of aesthetic skull augmentation. By creating a preformed implant that has a presurgically chosen shape and thicknesses based on the patient’s actual bony skull anatomy and aesthetic desires, this removes the inaccuracies that naturally come from intraoperatively fashioned augmentations that are made Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Female Forehead Osteoma Removal

Background: Osteomas are well known benign bony outgrowths that commonly occur on the skull. They are composed of mature solid bone that appears an a ballooning or circular outcropping from the skull’s surface. Their growth is slow and their progression in size is of one of years. They are reported to most commonly occur between Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Skull Implant for Back of Head Asymmetry

Background: The back of the head is prone to a variety of shape deformations. Whether it is from the head position that the fetus lays in utero or how the child sleeps after birth, the early moldability of the skull bones can create less than a round appearance on the back of the head. The Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Delayed Two-Stage Custom Skull Implant Augmentation

Background: The most successful approach to skull augmentations is with a custom made implant from a 3D CT scan. It is critically important to cover a large surface area of the skull in a smooth and confluent manner to the bone which can only be done with a preoperatively done design based on the patient’s Read More…

Technical Strategies – ePTFE Sheeting for Small Skull Depression Augmentations

The shape of the skull can be affected by a variety of irregularities that cause various elevations and depressions. Some of these are natural, some have occurred from minor amounts of trauma and other have been directly caused by some form of surgery. Most of these are modest in size and can always be felt Read More…

The Female Bumpit Skull Implant for Crown Augmentation

Aesthetic skull augmentations are done for both men and women. But there are gender differences in the types of skull augmentations that are done. The most common augmentations done in men are for a flat or asymmetric back of the head, a head shape symptom exposed by short haircuts or a shaved head. The most Read More…

Minimizing the Appearance of Scalp Scars in Aesthetic Skull Reshaping Surgery

Scalp incisions are a necessary part of any aesthetic skull reshaping procedure. Whether it is onlay augmentation with materials or bone reduction techniques, access to do the surgery and work under the scalp is necessary. But the resultant scalp scars in aesthetic skull surgery have much greater significance than it would for medically necessary neurosurgery Read More…

Male Back of Head Augmentation with Custom Skull Implants

A flat back of the head occurs due to either congenital in utero fetal positioning or post birth neonatal/infant sleep habits. Certain ethnicities are more prone to it than others but all skulls can be reshaped at very early ages in adverse manner. One of the most common aesthetic skull deformities that has its origin Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Nuchal Ridge Skull Reduction

Background: The skull is usually depicted as having an oblong shape with an overall smooth surface. While this is usually true, it is prone to have numerous bony irregularities. Most of skull irregularities occur along its suture lines particlerly where the differ suture lines merge. This would be understandable as these are areas of bone Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – A Skull Implant Used for Correction of a Head Contour Deformity Due to a Partial-Thickness Scalp Defect

Background: The shape of the head is largely determined by the underlying bone. This is certainly true from the brow bones back to the nuchal ridge on the bsck of the head. This is less true on the sides of the head where the temporalis muscle makes a significant part of its thickness. But the Read More…