How Can I Even Out The Top Of My Head?

Q: Dr. Eppley, I’m inquiring about if you’re able to even out the top of my head, it is very uneven.

A: Thank you for sending your pictures. You do have a tremendously high and overgrown crown of the skull of your head. Therefore, I think the question is how much of that crown height can be reduced for an overall better head shape. To answer that question accurately this requires a 3-D CT skull scan with color bone thickness mapping so we can see what is making the high crown area and can it be reduced and, if so, by what amount. The question is always whether the high crown area is due to an increased bone thickness or is the skull bone normal or even thin and that is a protrusion of the brain creating the height. This would obviously be a critical question to know in terms of making a treatment decision.

Dr Barry Eppley

Plastic Surgeon