  Craniosynostosis, a condition affecting 1 in 2000 infants, is caused by
premature fusing of cranial vault sutures, and manifests itself in abnormal
skull growth patterns. Left untreated, the condition may lead to severe
developmental impairment. Standard practice is to apply corrective cranial
bandeau remodeling surgery in the first year of the infant's life. The most
frequent type of surgery involves the removal of the so-called fronto-orbital
bar from the patient's forehead and the cutting of well-placed incisions to
reshape the skull in order to obtain the desired result. In this paper, we
propose a precise optimization model for the above cranial bandeau remodeling
problem and its variants. We have developed efficient algorithms that solve
best incision placement, and show hardness for more general cases in the class.
To the best of our knowledge this paper is the first to introduce optimization
models for craniofacial surgery applications.
