Can My Occipital Skull Protrusion Be Reduced?
Q: Dr. Eppley, I want to lessen the occipital ridge area to where it’s not as prominent.
A:Thank you for sending your picture and describing your concerns. You have correctly identified a prominent nuchal ridge. There are two ways to treat it depending upon one’s aesthetic objectives. The first is the one of which you are aware which is a bone burning reduction. This does require some release of neck muscle fibers to be able to get an adequate reduction although this has no functional issues in doing so. The other approaches to build up the indentation or the valley between the raise new core Ridge and the bone above it via a custom skull implant. This can also be very effective particularly for those may have concerns about a flatter or less projecting back of the head above it.
Dr. Barry Eppley
World-Renowned Plastic Surgeon

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