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Forehead Enhacement for 5cm Forehead

asked 10 months ago by sarahbush in Spring, TX
Latest answer by Larry S. Nichter, MD, MS
Question viewed 592 times
Tags: lengthen, narrow, options

what can be done for my super low forehead?? i tweezed about a 1/2 cm of my hairline about a year ago and it really opened up my face, but it looked very fake. is there a forehead lift that can be done to give me for forehead length? i just need 1/2 to 1 cm and it really opens up my face. please help me. what can i do? my forehead is only 5cms and very narrow. thanks for all the time and effort. -sarah.

13 answers to Forehead Enhacement for 5cm Forehead

Coronal Brow lift tends to lift the hairline

The short answer is that a coronal brow lift with the incision completely in your hairline will lift the hairline thereby expanding your forehead non hair bearing skin with hidden incisions.

Larry S. Nichter, MD, MS
Orange County Plastic Surgeon

Lifting hairline 1 cm

This can be accomplished quite well with a coronal forehead lift and there is a way to perform this without significant elevation of your eyebrows.

Sam Naficy, MD
Seattle Facial Plastic Surgeon

Hairline elevation using a forehead or brow lift

A transcoronal surgical browlift, or forehead lift is the most reliable technique for long lasting hairline elevation and it offers other benefits such as removal of the frown line muscles, smoothing of horizontal forehead lines opening up the eyelid area by repositioning excess droopy eyelid skin and raising the eyegbrows. The scars are completely hidden in the hairline. Up to 2 cm elevation is usually possible as long as the eyebrows don't end up too high so this requires an... more

C. Dennis Bucko, MD
San Diego Plastic Surgeon

Brow lfit

Depending upon how your forehead looks, a brow lift may be a possible solution. This can be a very good procedure to increase the length of the forehead and balance it against the lower 2/3's of the face. An exam is essential.

Steven Wallach, MD
Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

Low Forehead

There are several techniques for elongating the overly low forehead. Some of them involve raising up of the eyebrows, which likely may not be desired, while there are other techniques that can avoid this. It really is necessary for me to evaluate your photos to see what technique is best.

Jeffrey Epstein MD, FACS
Miami Facial Plastic Surgeon

Forehead lift to lengthen your forehead?

Yes. A forehead lift could be used to lengthen your forehead. Whether or not this is recommended is impossible to say without review of photos or a consultation.

Lawrence Kass, MD
Saint Petersburg Oculoplastic Surgeon

Forehead elevation

Hello, There are many options available to lengthen your forehead if that is what you would like to achieve. A more common request is forehead shortening as the forehead tends to lengthen as we age. If you have deep forehead wrinkles and a low forehead botox may help both. This is sometimes seen in the younger patients with strong forehead muscle activity. Otherwise there are a number of other surgical and non surgical options available. if your eyebrow are... more

Remus Repta, MD
Phoenix Plastic Surgeon

Surgery Forehead lengthening

Raising the hairline can be done in several ways, surgically or non-surgically. For non-surgical options certainly laser hair removal is an option. However it's more effective for brunettes or noirs rather than true blondes because the laser targets pigment in the hair's root (blondes have little pigment so it's less effective). Waxing and plucking are not practical and short lived. For a permanent and very effective solution, a "coronal" lift may be used - this technique can raise the... more

Ariel N. Rad, MD, PhD
Baltimore Plastic Surgeon

Laser vs Surgery

As you have read, there are many options but assuming that your concerns are valid and will make a difference to you, laser hair removal would be best if your hair is on the darker side. This would give you a gradual elevation of your hairline. Surgery would involve a scar across the top of your head that could leave the scalp behind it numb and hair loss along the scar making it visible and requiring revisions. Regardless, if you truly like the "look" of a higher... more

Curtis Wong, MD
Redding Plastic Surgeon

Forehead enhancement

You can raise your hairline with electrolysis and/or laser or you can consider a brow lift with the resulting scar at the anterior hairline. If your hair is dark and your skin is pale laser will work very well and will not involve a surgical procedure or scars. If the position or shape of your eyebrows would benefit from some adjustment then a surgical forehead lift is a better choice.

Daniel Greenwald, MD
Tampa Plastic Surgeon

Short forehead

There are a number of approaches that could be considered from endoscopic forehead lifts to electrolysis of the front hairs. The posiiton of the brows and factors of forehead and scalp looseness must be evaluated before considering a surgical procedure.

Sheldon S. Kabaker, MD
Oakland Facial Plastic Surgeon

www.kabaker.com

Narrow forehead

Without pictures it would be difficult to tell if you have a valid concert. There are people with narrow foreheads and low hairlines, surgery can be done to improve this and the reason for consultation with a physician is to help determine if you have a valid problem, what can be done about it and if are a good candidate.

Walter D. Gracia, MD
Arlington Plastic Surgeon

Interesting how you seem to understand your forehead.

Sarah I am not prepared to say that how you perceive yourself abnormal but it is different. Photographs would of course be very helpful and there is no substitute for an actual in person consultation. Based on your description, I wonder how sensitive you are to your appearance. It is a little unusual to damage one's hair line as you have done. This might have been something you intentionally did or it might have been a type of trichotillomania where once you got... more