Category: plastic surgery case study | skull reshaping

Background: The length of the head is the distance from the frontal bone of the forehead to the occipital bone on the back of the head. When increased anteroposterior head lengths occur there is always an increased occipital length component. With that occipital protrusion comes a change in the shape of the back of the Read More…

Background: Aesthetic skull augmentation have been done by two types of implantable materials, bone cements vs performed custom implants. These two skull augmentation materials have very different handling properties which not only affects their intraoperative placement but leads to major differences in what either one can aesthetically achieve. Failure to understand these differences leads many Read More…

Background: One of the most areas of skull augmentation is the back of the head. Plagiocephaly (flatness on one side), brachycephaly (flatness on both sides) and posterior fontanelle depressions are the most common reasons people seek an improved and more symmetric outward contour augmentation. The most reliable and effective method of such skull augmentations is Read More…

Background: The skull is affected by a variety of synostotic and deformational deformities that result in noticeable flat areas. The most well known of these flat head areas is plagiocephaly where its most significant effect is seen as a flat side of the back of the head. When more complete flatness occurs on the back Read More…

Background: Skull implant augmentation is unique in many ways that largely revolve around its overlying scalp coverage. Besides its visibility the most important feature of the scalp is its tight adherence to the skull. It is best thought of as skin stretched over a beach ball. The point being is that it is tight and Read More…

Background: While the skull is generally a collection of smooth convex surfaces, it is prone to a wide variety of contour deformities. Many of these contour deformities are located in and around the suture lines which serve as the interface between two growing skull bone plates. As there are six primary sutures on the external Read More…

Background: The occipital bone is often referred to as the skull bone on the back of the head even though this is not anatomically accurate. It does not make up all the bone on the back of the head even though it makes up a significant part of it. It really only makes up the Read More…

Background:  Frontal bossing is usually an isolated aesthetic skull deformity. Similarly excessive head width/convexity is often also a localized head shape issue. But there are some patients where the two are related and are part of an overall larger and wider head. The width created by the frontal bossing extends over onto the side of Read More…