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The frontal suture is a fibrous joint that divides the two halves of the frontal bone of the skull in infants and children. Typically, it completely fuses between three and nine months of age, with the two halves of the frontal bone being fused together.
Children born with craniosynostosis have a distinct phenotype, i.e., appearance—observable traits caused by the expression of a condition's genes. The features of craniosynostosis' particular phenotype are determined by which suture is closed. [7] The fusion of this suture causes a certain change in the shape of the skull; a deformity of the ...
An infant's skull consists of five main bones: two frontal bones, two parietal bones, and one occipital bone. These are joined by fibrous sutures, which allow movement that facilitates childbirth and brain growth. Posterior fontanelle is triangle-shaped. It lies at the junction between the sagittal suture and lambdoid suture.
The greater, or anterior fontanel, is a lozenge-shaped space that is situated at the junction of the sagittal and the coronal sutures. The lesser, or posterior fontanel, is represented by a small triangular area at the intersection of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures. The localization of these fontanels gives important information concerning ...
Scaphocephaly or sagittal craniosynostosis is a type of cephalic disorder which occurs when there is a premature fusion of the sagittal suture.Premature closure results in limited lateral expansion of the skull, resulting in a characteristic long, narrow head. [1]
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Expansion forces at the sutures lead to expansion of bone and thus growth of craniofacial skeleton. Cranial vault increases in size via the primary growth of bone that happens at the suture. Sicher theorized that tissues such as periosteum , Cartilage and sutures are growth centers just like epiphysis of the long bone that allow the bone to form.
Craniosynostosis is a condition in which one or more of the fibrous sutures in an infant skull prematurely fuses, [15] and changes the growth pattern of the skull. [16] Because the skull cannot expand perpendicular to the fused suture, it grows more in the parallel direction. [16]