Can I Get A Large Skull Augmentation For A Bigger Head Shape?

Q: Dr. Eppley, In general, I feel like my head is too small for my body (I’m 5’7’’ and about 150 pounds).

It’s kind of flat at the top and at the back, I feel like it lacks that roundness and volume at the top, I try to cover it with hairdos, fangs and such, I look more harmonious when I add more volume there.

As for the back of my head, it just seems as if the parietal bone simply didn’t develop enough in length and my head seems way too short, which doesn’t help the way my chin projects either.

A: By description and your pictures, you are describing a classic female top crown in back of the head, augmentation, basically between the two hairlines and the bony temporal lines to the side. Unless one only needs a few millimeters of implant thickness this would require a two-stage skull augmentation approach with the first stage being scalp expansion to accommodate a larger implant. This is particularly needed in blond and light brown haired Caucasian females, who often have the thinnest scalps which stretch the least.

Dr. Barry Eppley

World-Renowned Plastic Surgeon