Category: plastic surgery case study | skull reshaping

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…

Background:   Flat areas on the skull are one of the primary indications for the use of custom skull implants. While flat skull areas can occur anywhere on the skull they have a propensity to be more on the back of the head than anywhere else. This is undoubtably due to that the back of Read More…

Background:  The metopic suture runs down the midline on the frontal bone of the forehead. At its back end is the bregma where it intersects with the transverse coronal sutures. At its front end it intersects with the nasal bones. Its function in the neonate is to facilitate passage through the birth canal by allowing Read More…