Category: skull reshaping

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…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Female Crown of the Skull Augmentation with a Custom Implant

Background: The shape of the head in a female has important aesthetic significance. While the concept of having a ‘nice round head’ is perceived as an ideal head shape, the ideal woman’s head shape is much more of an oblong shape. But the area over the crown of the head is of particular significance as Read More…

Clinic Snapshots – Large Custom Skull Implant for Flat Back of the Head Augmentation

Of all aesthetic skull reshaping surgeries in adults, correction of the flat back of the head is the most common. It is a skull shape deformation that is shared equally by women and men as well as crosses all ethnicities. It can be a complete flattening across the back of the heador it can Read More…

Technical Strategies – Six Pack Etching in Custom Skull Implants

Custom skull implants provide a reliable and safe method for augmenting flat or deficient areas of the head. Like all face and body implants that are placed for aesthetic purposes, the surgery is fundamentally about placing a performed implant into the desired tissue pocket through the smallest incision as possible that will permit it. This Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Skull Implants for Crown Augmentation in Women

Background: The shape of the head has importance to many people whether they have good hair cover or not. It should be no surprise that men who lack good hair cover or shave their heads make up a greater percent of aesthetic skull augmentation than that of women. At the least their head reshaping goals Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – The Grid Technique for Occipital Skull Reduction

Background: The shape of the back of the head is affected by many factors. While flatness and asymmetries are well known to be caused by intrauterine and postnatal head positioning, limiting growth expansions in the compressed area, the origins of bony protrusions are less clear. In a study published in the Journal of Craniofacial Surgery Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Occipital Skull Implant for Plagiocephaly Correction

Background: Plagiocephaly is the medical term used to describe a diagonal asymmetry of the head. It is meant to refer to a flatness on either the back or front of the head. But in reality there is always a contralateral flattening opposite the dominant flat part due to the way the skull develops. Hence plagiocephaly Read More…