If A Coronal Incision Is Used For Brow Bone Reduction Can The Forehead Be Reshaped As Well?

Q: Dr. Eppley, Does Dr. Eppley perform brow bone reduction/type 3 surgery using the coronal incision and or hairline incision approach(s)?  I’m asking in that if he offers the coronal approach would it be possible to get a price range for this surgery?  The reasons being that I have a very tight scalp & I do not believe I need my hairline to be lowered.  I’m within the female range at the center of my hairline.  Filling in the receded portions would be adequate to give me a more feminine side view as it relates to my hairline.  If he were to offer the coronal approach it would also give him access to my entire forehead where he could make further adjustments to the forehead as needed.  This would be an added bonus to having my brow bones alone reduced. 

A: I have performed brow bone reduction by bone flap setback by various approaches including a bicoronal and frontal hairline incisions. Such incisions don’t mean that the frontal hairline needs to be advanced, some patients do and some don’t. That is a patient’s choice or need.

You have correctly surmised that the wide open access afforded by the bicoronal incision allows for complete forehead reshaping which usually means narrowing the forehead along the entire bony temporal line as well.

Dr. Barry Eppley

World-Renowned Plastic Surgeon