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Can I Get Cosmetic Plastic Surgery to Flatten my Forehead?
I would like to get surgery to burr the forehead bone to make it as flat as possible, as mine extends outwardly, and also to lower my hairline a little bit down. I would like to know do what type of doctor (if any) performs this surgery and how much it costs. Thanks.
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amz771
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Plastic Surgery to Flatten Forehead
Any procedure that would flatten, or reduce the convexity of the forehead involves contouring the frontal bone. The frontal bone is a very thick, diploic form of bone which can be amenable to some degree of contouring, but only under very specific conditions: 1) a preoperative CT scan to assess bone thickness and position/size of the frontal sinuses, 2) a Surgeon who is well versed in craniofacial work, 3) a Patient who has reasonable expectations; understanding that the procedure...
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Frontal bossing (Neanderthal look) can be reduced and hairline lowered in one operation!
In order to "get to" the frontal bone area beneath our brows, the best access is via a forehead or browlift incision. This can be either bicoronal (from ear to ear through the hair) or at the anterior hairline if one wants to lower a too-high hairline (reducing the height of the forehead). In your case, the hairline incision provides the best approach to treating both your prominent frontal bossing and your high hairline.
Though the bone over your frontal sinuses can be...
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Burring down the Frontal Bone
Depending on the person, we have variable thickness to the frontal bone. Some of it can be burred down, but, unfortunately, most people with the "crowmagnon man" look is from a hyperaerated frontal sinus. This can be tough to fix and still make it look natural. Make sure you chose someone who not only understands the forehead and brows, but also understands the frontal sinus anatomy and the way it drains. Because of the frontal sinus location, you...
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Forehead Lift to Lower Hairline and Remove the Frontal Bone Excess
Frontal hair line can be very easily lowererd. Most importantly, the result should remain proporitional and natural in comparison to other facail features.
Lowering the bone of the forehead is possible but requries precise planning with CT Scanning.
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Facial plastic surgeons are excellent physicians to lower your hairline and reduce your brow bone prominence
Facial plastic surgeons are excellent physicians to lower your hairline and reduce your brow bone prominence. This is usually done through an incision just in the front of your hairline. It requires some release of the hair behind it and advancing the hair line forward by tacking the hairline to the bone anteriorly and in a more forward position. A brow lift can then be done in conjunction with removing of some of the muscles that make you frown. And during this...
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Brow bone can be reduced
If your brown bone protrudes more than you would like, it can sometimes be burred or shaved down. Patients who come in with this often say that have a "neanderthal" or "cromagnon" look. I also do brow bone reduction for male-to-female transgender patients. If it's the entire forehead and not just the brow bone, this will be trickier and may not be possible.
Whether it can be reduced depends on the thickness of the bone. The frontal bone (above the brows) covers the sinus...
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Hairline lowering and forehead softening
Lowering the hairline surgically is a commonly performed procedure. Softening a prominent forehead is also possible; the degree of softening achievable depends upon the amount of bone available for "shaving".
This particular combination of procedures is most common in M to F gender reassignment (facial feminization surgery). If this is your ultimate goal, I would recommend seeking out a surgeon with particular expertise in this specific arena, as their esthetic...
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Flatten Forehead with Surgical Hairline Advancement
Yes, this is a possible technique. What you are describing is the surgical hairline advancement (SHA) combined by rasping/filing of the forehead/brow bones. The SHA allows for the advancement of the entire frontal hairline by anywhere from ½ to 1 1/2 inches, depending on the elasticity of your scalp.
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Forehead recontouring with bone reduction and shortening
The shape of the forehead can be changed through a combination of bone reduction and forehead skin shortening. This would be done through a pretrichial or hairline incision. The frontal bone can be reduced by about 5mms through burring in most people. This can be enough to decrease the convex bulge, particularly in the upper forehead area. The hair-bearing scalp can be advanced forward by about 1 to 1.5 cms and the excess forehead skin removed, thus lowering the hairline and shortening...
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Tricophytic browlift can be used to lower the hairline
A tricophytic browlift (what my fellow commenters have also been describing) will allow the hairline to be lowered. The cautions regarding visible scars have been mentioned. Seek a facial plastic surgeon who is familiar with the tricophytic approach and knows where the place the scar and how to bevel the incision to provide maximum camouflage to the scar. The approach would also allow the forehead contouring that you seek.
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Frontal Bone Contouring and Hairline Lowering
The forehead can be altered by burring the frontal bone. This requires a preoperative CT scan to determine the anatomy of the frontal bone, knowledge of facial anatomy, and the ability to remove the precise amount of bone for reshaping. Most commonly this occurs in male patients seeking less prominence of the glabella, which can create an overly prominent brow ridge.
In some patients the hairline can be lowered, but this procedure is limited by the mobility of the...
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How to flatten a forehead
Although not common, it is possible to flatten the frontal bone, otherwise known as the forehead to make it smoother. This is requested by patients who want to change the contour of their forehead and remove some of the frontal bossing. However, this procedure should not be undertaken lightly. It will require an incision that will go across the top of your scalp so that the patient may have good visualization of the frontal bone that comprises your forehead. This procedure will likely...
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Lowering the hairline and reducing the brow bone
You have a prominent frontal bone, what is called "frontal bossing". It can be burred down (shaved with an electric tool), but first a determination needs to be made regarding how thick the bone actually is, because there is a sinus underneath that area. This is done with an x-ray or CT scan.
The hairline can be lowered through a precise incision along your hairline, although if you have an issue of hair loss, seek someone who does hair transplantation (I don't) to restore your...
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There is surgery to flatten the forehead.
The forehead can be flattened, but only somewhat. A browlift is performed and a hight speed bur is used to flatten the bone. Generally the bar of bone at the level of the eyebrows is the specific target because it can be fairly thick on some individuals. The frontal sinus is behing the bone so too much thinning could end up entering the sinus. This is not big deal but limits the amount of reduction possible.
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Forehead Contour; Hairline Lowering
Many people wih fullness of the bone above the eyebrows have this lowered with removal of some of the bone. I have also countoured the forehead with liposculpture (fat injections).
I frequently lower the hairline. Men and women are approached differently. In men there is a risk of male pattern baldness; hair replacement surgery may be the best approach. For women we developed the technique to move the existing hairline lower on the forehead. This can also be done with men; however if hair...
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Seek Someone with Experience in these procedures
You should only consider a facial plastic surgeon or a plastic surgeon with experience in these procedures. And the answer to your question is that your hairline can be advanced and the bone of the forehead modified in a conservative fashion.
It sounds as if you have some frontal bossing or thickening of the bone over the frontal sinuses. Many women and some men prefer a flatter appearance in this area. Usually a "trichophytic " or hair line incision is made and the tissues of...
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