Forehead Enhacement for 5cm Forehead

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. 

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.

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.

  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.

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 hairline by 1-2 cm. The down side is the long scar over the top of the head. However, if you're not bald or have thinning hair, the scar is well hidden and your result is permanent. On the other hand a high hairline and long forehead can be lowered with a similar surgery, though the scar is right at the hairline. Experience is everything so seek a board certified plastic surgeon to guide you. Good luck!

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 started, you could not stop.  This is one concern.  The other concern is body dysmorphic disorder.  This is the preoccupation with minor or nonexistent flaws that essentially only you can perceive that cause you social consequences.  Examples of this is avoiding dating or parties, suspicions that others are talking or joking about the features that concern you.  Studies have shown that it is very difficult for surgeons to understand these concerns.  This means that you end up with the wrong surgeries and much unhappiness.  

Unfortunately not every cosmetic surgery is any good at being a part-time psychiatrist.  So you need to struggle with these questions.  Of course an aspect of these conditions is a lack of insight-hard to be honest with yourself.  So ask yourself if any of these descriptions sound like they might apply to you.  If so, it might be better to first get some psychotherapy to gain more insight into your motivations and possibly treatment.  Generally, I think that it is easier to face the possibility of getting surgery than psychotherapy.  

A coronal browlift will lengthen the forehead to some degree but with that increase will be a resultant elevation of the brows as well. The problem is that simple stretching of the skin will not necessaily make for more than 1/2 to 1 cm of forehead lengthening without changing brow position. One alternative option is a two-stage approach with a tissue expander first followed by a coronal browlift approach. This is the most assured method of lengthening the forehead skin and moving the hairline back without adverse brow alteration. 

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.

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 also low and need elevating a brow lift will naturally lengthen the forehead if performed by a coronal brow lift or via a endoscopic brow lift.

All the best,

Dr Repta

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 forhead, be assured, it can be done.  Best wishes to achieving your results.