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Our Cranio Journey.

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Our Crainio Journey.  Steep a cup of tea and get comfortable because this is gonna be a long one! I've never really documented Case's journey from diagnosis of Sagittal Craniosynostosis  to the Crainio Vault Remodeling. In part, the struggles of the journey were still fresh in my mind and I wanted to wait awhile for the results of a full scull repair to be apparent.  Let's start in May of 2013. For a while, Case's Geneticist thought he had a suture (every baby is born with small gaps in their scull that close as they grow older) or two that had prematurely fused causing his brain to be crowded and his head to grow wrong. She requested a CT scan and for us to be seen after the scan by the Crainio-Facial clinic at Children's. He was already a patient at the clinic due to his sub-mucus cleft pallet and other Cranio-facial anomalies. The CT scan showed that the top suture on his head was indeed closed meaning Case had Saggital Crainiosynostis. The first Dr we