Can I have 3.8cm of my forehead reduced in a one stage operation?

You should first make an appointment with a doctor for an exam to make sure a forehead reduction is possible in your particular case.  3.8cm is a great distance to cover with a one stage operation.In general, forehead reduction surgery involves an incision along your hair line and pulling your scalp forward and cutting out any overlapping skin then sewing back the skin. This obviously requires an exam to make sure your scalp is loose enough and you do not have other un-diagnosed cause of hair loss.

Ffor women, there are two ways to accomplish this, the first being a hairline lowering surgery where the hairline is advanced forward. It is often limited in the distance you can move the hairline, often around 1 inch or so. If there is more movement required is in your case, a hair transplant lowering procedure works better and does not put a strain on your forhead. In some women, there is loss of the corner hairline and/or the temple peaks and when this happens, only a hair transplant lowering procedure can address these corners.

A patient's scalp would have to be extremely loose to remove 3.8cm  of the forehead to lower the hairline. But, maybe that's you.

You would have to have an extremely flexible scalp and forehead to accomplish 3.8 cm of lowering of the hairline (shortening of the forehead) with a one stage operation. With a two-stage process,involving tissue expansion, it is quite easy to get the amount of forehead reduction you want.