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Plastic Surgery Case Study – Reduction of the Vertex Skull Bump

Background: The skull is formed by six separate cranial bones which are initially joined by fibrous tissue known as sutures. The union of these sutures is most commonly recognized by the two large open areas between them that remain after birth, the fontanelles or soft spots. The fontanelles allow for rapid stretching and deformation of Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Sagittal Ridge Skull Reshaping

Background: While the skull is often perceived as just a large round homogenous surface, it is actually made up of various regions or aesthetic units. These units arise from the various plates and suture lines from which the skull is embryologically and developmentally formed. Each of these skull areas can be prone to surface contour Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Browlifting Effect from Custom Skull Implant

Background: Skull implants are used today to treat a variety of aesthetic head shape concerns and deformities. While many think of skull implants of filling in craniotomy or other traumatic skull defects, aesthetic skull implants are placed in a subperiosteal onlay fashion to build out usually normal thickness skull bone areas. Skull implants placed in Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Upper Head Widening Custom Skull Implant

  Background: Aesthetic skull augmentation can be done for a wide variety of deficient skull shape concerns. Changes can be made in skull height, skull width and frontal and posterior skull projection. In rare cases and with the use of a first stage scalp tissue expander, the entire skull can be augmented through a circumferential Read More…

Case Study – Semi-Custom Skull Implant for Occipital Plagiocephaly

Background: Occipital plagiocephaly is a well recognized skull shape deformity that is caused by deformational forces. Whether this is the result of intrauterine constraint, post delivery head positioning or both, the thin and malleable skull bones are prone to be inadvertently molded into a deformed shape. This classically appears as a flatness on one side Read More…

Small Sagittal Skull Implants

While the skull is often envisioned as a perfectly smooth oval shape, it often isn’t. Due to how the cranial sutures fuse and intervening bones form, the surface of the skull is often irregular. Such irregularities often occur along the suture lines due to their early activity during development and closure right after birth. They Read More…

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