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Maxillofacial Surgery
The Forehead
Built from Facial Aesthetics — Concepts and Clinical Diagnosis
What’s inside
6 sections · 52 slides
Overview
- What this covers
- Why the forehead carries meaning
- The forehead as an emblem of intelligence
Anatomy and landmarks
The bone under the skin, and the names on its bumps
- Where the forehead begins and ends
- Three bony landmarks to know
- Forehead landmarks from top to bottom
- Bony landmarks of the forehead on the skull
- Why the forehead is used as a measuring post
- The frontal bone: skeleton of the upper face
- How the frontal bone meets its neighbours
- The frontal air sinuses
- How the frontal sinuses develop
The forehead as an aesthetic unit
One unit, two subunits, and how the examination is set up
- What clinical evaluation asks
- One aesthetic unit, two subunits
- The forehead splits in two
- The two subunits of the forehead
Frontal view: width and height
Proportions matter more than millimetres
- The outer contour of the face
- Facial widths that shape the outer contour
- The three facial widths
- 80-85%
- Relative width beats absolute width
- Forehead height
- 57 ± 7 mm
- The thirds are near-equal, not exactly equal
- Finding trichion when the hairline recedes
Profile view
Slope, brow projection and the angle where nose meets forehead
- The forehead seen from the side
- Forehead inclination, or slope
- Forehead slope: posterior, vertical and anterior
- How far the brow ridge should project
- Two ways the brow ridge can vary
- Frontal bossing
- Frontal bossing caused by an enlarged frontal sinus
- Enlarged frontal sinus behind a bossed brow
- Bossing is not always bone
- Supraorbital rim deficiency
- Where the forehead meets the nose
- The nasofrontal angle
- Splitting the angle at nasion
- Splitting the nasofrontal angle at soft tissue nasion
- 5-10 mm
The view from above
The arc of the brow ridge, and a surface curved in every direction
- The forehead seen from above
- A surface curved in every direction
- Curved contour of the forehead in side and top view
- Skull from above: the frontal bone arcs backwards
- A working order for the examination
- Where male and female foreheads differ
- Normal values for the forehead at a glance
- Normal values for the forehead at a glance (continued)
- Takeaways
- References
- References (continued)
- Facial Aesthetics: Concepts and Clinical Diagnosis, 2nd Edition