Patient Info
- Gender:
- Female
- Age:
- 48
- Surgeon:
- Dr. Inessa Fishman
Description
This 48-year-old woman was bothered by the appearance of 2 small forehead bumps, of which one was visible on her left forehead. Dr. Fishman removed both bumps via a small office-based surgical procedure, carefully hiding the scar in the patient’s hair-bearing scalp. These growths turned out to be osteomas. The patient is shown 2.5 months after surgery, with excellent healing results and an invisible scar.
Osteomas are typically slow-growing, painless bumps that develop due to genetics or trauma. They can develop within the sinus, or on the forehead or bony skull. They mostly bother patients with their appearance, and rarely if ever have any associated symptoms. We usually remove forehead osteomas through a small incision hidden in the patient’s hair or in a forehead wrinkle, for best scar camouflage. We treat most osteomas in our clinic, with the patient awake and relaxed with laughing gas, by-mouth relaxing medications, and injected numbing medicine.