The seven-and-a-half hospital routinely treats patients hours certainly felt like with the disorders. “We take out the bones, reshape them and reinsert them.” The length of the surgery? “Forever!” says Amber. “We are performing cranial remodeling,” he explains. Because of the relatively small number, not every 4
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Craniofacial disorders, most recentlyīrought to the public’s attention through the book and movie Wonder, in which the main character has Treachers Collins Syndrome, only affect about 600,000 Americans. David noticed a ridge in Dawson’s forehead shortly after his Valentine’s Day birth and later saw it faintly when he looked back at a routine ultrasound Amber had during her pregnancy. The condition happens in 1 of every 2,000 births in the United States, and the type Dawson has, which involves a single suture closing too early, is one of the more common forms. Sometimes, a genetic syndrome is the cause. Many types of craniosynostosis form for unknown reasons. The result is a skull that is not normally shaped. Craniosynostosis conditions occur when sutures, joints between bones in the skull, fuse together too early in development. The couple heard someone say his eyes were close together, the first clue that the newborn had trigonocephaly, also known as metopic synostosis, a type of craniosynostosis. Dawson was born by caesarean section to David and Amber Woods Feb.
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