We have seen various possible causes of depression on your forehead. Treating and managing depressions on your forehead. GeneticsĪccording to the Journal of Heredity, Volume 6, Issue 4, 1 April 1915, Pages 163–164 4, the depression on your forehead could be genetical if you have relatives who have it. Treatment is often by dermal grafts including fat injections among other treatments your surgeon will recommend. This is a craniofacial disorder or condition characterized by a depressed “straight line running right down the middle of the forehead vertically from the frontal hairline to the eyebrows.” 3 Linear scleroderma can affect other body parts, but it occurs along distinct lines hence the name. The article is about “A 67-year-old woman had a sunken deformity of her right brow associated with recurrent pain.” 2 Linear scleroderma – vertical dent in the forehead Michael Kazim, MD in 2012, the presence of forehead dent can be a manifestation of a rare form of metastatic cancer. Metastatic cancerĪccording to an article published by Mary C. Kokil Mathur states, “an indentation can develop on the forehead in case of mucocele of paranasal sinuses or scleroderma.” 1Your case could be due to this condition. Mucocele of paranasal sinuses forehead dentĪs Dr. Your plastic surgeon will advise you on the best way to deal with a sagging eyebrow. Treatment options will include dermal fillers as well as going for a brow and or facelift. They are often above your brows, and they will make you look old and angry. Brow sagīesides wrinkles, brow sag is another probable cause of this dent or depression that you have. There are many treatment options for forehead wrinkles including creams, dermal fillers, surgical treatments, among others. Such will not develop overnight but gradually.įor instance, if you have facial wrinkles which often vertically on your eyebrows upwards, they are due to corrugator supercilii muscles. Such dents will go away after a few hours on their own, meaning they are not permanent Furrows, wrinkles and hyperactive glabellar musclesįurrows or wrinkle indents which could be horizontal on your forehead or vertical between your eyebrows are another possible cause. It could be a hard object that pressed on your forehead including your ring, finger knuckles, or something that was on the bed. One of the possible reason is pressure from an object or body part as you are sleeping or a wrong sleeping posture. Possible causes include: Pressure while sleeping and a wrong sleeping posture There are those that will affect both adults and children. Lastly, it can have other symptoms or none and some causes will affect adults yet some will be on babies (congenital defects).
It could also be vertical or horizontal, and anywhere on your forehead including between your eyebrows. When it contracts, it can produce one or more dimples over the brow depending on its interaction with the frontalis and. The edge of the corrugator muscle can extend significantly upward and outward to the lateral forehead. And I also have a deep line in between eyebrow. Depending on the cause, the dent or depression could be large or small, temporary or permanent. I turned 23 and I have noticed dents above my eyebrow.