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Frontal Bone Remodeling for Gender Reassignment of the Male Forehead: A Gender-Reassignment Surgery

Overview of attention for article published in Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, May 2011
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Title
Frontal Bone Remodeling for Gender Reassignment of the Male Forehead: A Gender-Reassignment Surgery
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Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, May 2011
DOI 10.1007/s00266-011-9731-y
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Johannes Franz Hoenig

Abstract

Gender-reassignment therapy, especially for reshaping of the forehead, can be an effective treatment to improve self-esteem. Contouring of the cranial vault, especially of the forehead, still is a rarely performed surgical procedure for gender reassignment. In addition to surgical bone remodeling, several materials have been used for remodeling and refinement of the frontal bone. But due to shortcomings of autogenous bone material and the disadvantages of polyethylene or methylmethacrylate, hydroxyapatite cement (HAC) composed of tetracalcium phosphate and dicalcium phosphate seems to be an alternative. This study aimed to analyze the clinical outcome after frontal bone remodeling with HAC for gender male-to-female reassignment. The 21 patients in the study were treated for gender reassignment of the male frontal bone using HAC. The average age of these patients was 33.4 years (range, 21-42 years). The average volume of HAC used per patient was 3.83 g. The authors' clinical series demonstrated a satisfactory result. The surgery was easy to perform, and HAC was easy to apply and shape to suit individual needs. Overall satisfaction was very high. Therefore, HAC is a welcome alternative to the traditional use of autogenous bone graft for correction of cranial vault irregularities.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 42 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 8 19%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 10%
Student > Postgraduate 4 10%
Student > Bachelor 3 7%
Other 9 21%
Unknown 8 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 24 57%
Social Sciences 3 7%
Psychology 2 5%
Computer Science 1 2%
Arts and Humanities 1 2%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 9 21%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 September 2023.
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#6,973,658
of 25,503,365 outputs
Outputs from Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
#242
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#38,298
of 122,279 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
#9
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