How Can My Peanut Head Shape Be Reduced?

Q: Dr. Eppley, I want to get skull reduction surgery. When I was a child and teenager growing up I was bullied relentlessly for my head being big. The back of my head is so big that everyone says that it looks like a peanut. I think it might be a deformities or something. But I want to get skull surgery so that it doesn’t look like a peanut. I just want the round of my back head to be straight.

A:You have a large occipital bun skull protrusion which can be reduced with an estimated result as shown in the attached pictures. X- rays would be needed to determine the thickness of the bone but in every occipital bun deformity I have seen it is because the bone is thicker not thinner.

Dr. Barry Eppley

World-Renowned Plastic Surgeon