Category: plastic surgery case study | skull reshaping

Background: Skull deformities of the back of the head are very common. It is probably the one skull area that has the greatest incidence of shape distortions. This likely occurs because it is the most exposed skull area to deformational force both in utero and after birth due to fetal and neonatal positioning. Thus flat Read More…

Background: The shape of the head can be quite variable amongst different people. While often perceived as a smooth oblong shape, some people are not as blessed with such a smooth and symmetric skull. The skull can have a large number of asymmetries and deficiencies that may be of concern to the patient but unperceived Read More…

Background: Skull defects come in a wide variety of shape, sizes and thicknesses. Correcting them can also be done using a variety of cranioplasty materials. The choice of cranioplasty material depends on a variety of factors including size of the defect, whether it is partial or full-thickness, and the desired location and length of the Read More…

Background: The normal rounder shape of the skull can be altered for a wide variety of reasons. One of the most common reasons for skull deformation is congenital or genetic. Usually this affects one or several of the cranial sutures creating a variety of fairly classic skull shape deformations. But there are a whole host Read More…

Background: The size and shape of the skull can be safely increased for a variety of aesthetic reasons by onlay materials. Regardless of the material used to create the skull augmentation serious consideration must be given to how well the overlying scalp can accommodate it. If the scalp incision used to place it can not Read More…

Background: Cranial or skull reconstruction has been done for over half a century with a wide variety of different materials. Whether its is done using the patient’s own bone, bone substitutes or synthetic materials, successful skull reconstruction can be accomplished with all of them if skillfully done. But because of the availability limitations of using Read More…

Background: The top of the skull has the best aesthetic shape when it is a smooth convex curve from one temporal line to the other. This shape can be altered and is influenced by the original sagittal suture line which runs down the middle of the skull between the two original anterior and posterior fontanelles. Read More…

  Background: One of the most common aesthetic skull deformities occurs in women with concerns about the shape of the back of their head. Lack of adequate fullness at the vertex and upper occipital region creates a flatness that promotes some women to compensate by puffing up their hair to hide it. This is such Read More…