32 Year Old, Female, Forehead Reduction/Lowering, Melbourne, Australia, Dr Martinick in Sydney

My scalp has been super itchy! The sensation is slowly coming back, so to relieve my head, I am constantly drumming my fingers on my scalp. The itch is so strange because it feels like it’s layers deep.
It has not really been sore at all. Random pants of pain but more to do with the sensation coming back.
For a few weeks while the scar was healing, it looked like I had really bad dandruff. I’ve been wearing my hair side parted, and tied back for work, which covers the scar.
A few things to note:
- No hair loss whatsoever. I am very happy with my decision.
- Dr Martnick’s procedure is very gentle. She does not cut around where your main blood supply lies. She is also super gentle and massages your scalp forward. I highly recommend her and Dr Aalia.
- I had minimal laxity and I wanted maximum forehead taken down. So my scar is on my hairline, not in it. I’m happy with that.
- My hair has always been very fine and sparse. I have lost no density, although the sparsity I always had is more noticeable now because my scalp is now visible from the front. This doesn’t other me, because I can disguise it by wearing my hair different ways.

I booked a hotel 20mins from the clinic and arrived in Sydney 2 hours before my op at 2pm. I went to the clinic to drop my bags off and went shopping just around the corner. Before my surgery I sat down with Dr Martinick and Dr Aliaa Yuseff to run through expectations. They were nice, comforting and hopeful I would get the result I wanted.
I didn’t have a lot of laxity and was told I had 2cms give. Perhaps if I had massaged my head more I would have had more flexibility so just a heads up to anyone getting this operation - if you don’t have good laxity please remember to massage! However both drs said they do their best to get more as my forehead was so massive - 9cms! As long as they could get at least 2cms though, I knew I’d be happy.
I remember everything including the conversation i had with the drs as the procedure was being done. Apparently some people remember everything during twilight and some remember nothing. I felt pain a couple of times so said something and the anaesthetic was increased. It was like being between awake and dreaming. At the end of the op, the drs told me 2.5cms were taken off and I was really happy with that. I was given pain killers and a sleeping tablet to go home with and I hopped in a taxi, went to the hotel, ate a roll with avo and tuna I’d made up with stuff I got from the city supermarket then propped myself up to sleep. I woke at 2.30am feeling discomfort (I usually sleep on my side by couldn’t because of the drain), so took more pain killers and slept again.
Went back in to the clinic the next day and had my “after” photos taken. So so happy with the result. Goodbye ninehead! The next day my ears were sticking right out due to swelling. I had a lot of (and still have a lot of at 6 days after surgery) swelling as well as yellow bruising. My head feels super tight all over and my ears and neck were and are still feeling sore, but I had very little laxity so the pull was tighter than other people may experience.
I had my surgery on the Wednesday and flew home on the Friday. On the weekend I stopped wearing my headscarf and started pulling my fringe over the scar.
No hair loss at this stage. Very happy with the decision.
I am having my stitches out in 2 days and will lot more pics then.

I absolutely despise how my head slopes back. I really hope I can get 3 cms off. I'm scalp massaging every day. Fingers crossed.
I'm not really sure what's going to happen with my hairline, especially round the temples but anything is an improvement on why my hairline currently is... surely?!