Is There Hair Loss Involved In Skull Implants?

Q: Dr. Eppley, I am interested in a consultation for back of the skull reshaping to make it more round. What the procedure options? Is there any hair loss involved?

A:Thank you for your inquiry and sending your pictures. Flat back of the heads are the most common skull augmentation procedures performed using custom skull implants. Hair loss is not an issue as long as one does not try to make the skull implant too big or do too much. It is important to remember that in any flat skull area  the overlying scalp tissue is genetically tight and, well it can be expanded, there are limits and one does not want to generate excessive stress in overlying hair follicles in the upper scalp players. That is a design judgment that I know best and in some skull augmentation patients I have to temper their enthusiastic goals with this concept in mind.

Dr. Barry Eppley

World-Renowned Plastic Surgeon