Hoe Can I Reduce The Upper Width Of My Skull?

Q: Dr. Eppley, Hi I want to reduce the width of my skull at the top most part. Please find the pictures attached and suggest whatever is suitable.

A:With a high temporal bulge you would like to know if muscle reduction would be successful as this would be the only scarless treatment with an incision in the crease of the back of the ear. I suspect it would be but it would be important to get a 2D skull CT scan so it can determined what is the composition of that bulge (bone vs muscle) in theory at that level of the temporal area it should be more bone than muscle. However having done the temporal reduction procedure many times in similar cases muscle removal alone has been very successful. You can’t tell by feel whether it is going to be muscle because all muscle feels just like bone on the side of the head.

Dr. Barry Eppley

World-Renowned Plastic Surgeon