Craniofacial Clinic

The Craniofacial Clinic includes experts from different specialties, who all work together to care for your child. We offer both surgical and non-surgical care for children who have congenital (present at birth) or acquired (developed after birth) conditions. The team includes specially trained:

• Plastic surgeons
• Neurosurgeons
• Ophthalmologists
• Geneticists

We also work closely with a number of pediatric specialists at the medical center when their expertise is needed, including:

• Ear, nose and throat (ENT) specialists
• Neurology
• Oculoplastic surgery
• Occupational/physical therapy and orthotics

Our team provides excellent, complete care from the time your child is diagnosed through any long-term treatment he or she may need.

Conditions we treat

The Craniofacial Clinic treats many conditions, including:

• Craniosynsotosis
  • Metopic
  • Sagital
  • Unicoronal/bicoronal
  • Lambdoid 
• Positional plagiocephaly (flat head syndrome)
• Craniofacial syndromes
  • Apert’s (abnormal skull and face growth)
  • Crouzon’s (when skull bones fuse together too soon, preventing normal growth)
  • Pfeifer’s (certain skull bones fuse too soon, along with having webbed fingers and toes)
  • Carpenter’s (webbed or fused fingers or toes, having more than 10 fingers an/or toes, pointed or cone-shaped head)
  • Saethre Chotzen (skull bones fuse too soon causing abnormal head growth, such as wide-set, bulging eyes; beaked nose; underdeveloped upper jaw; short or fused fingers)
  • Binder's (underdeveloped nose and/or upper jaw)
  • Treacher Collins Syndrome
• Hemifacial microsomia/Goldenhar’s syndrome (lower half of one side of the face does not grow normally; one ear may be partly formed or missing)
• Fibrous dysplasia/McCune Albright syndrome (a skeletal disease where weak, scar-like tissue replaces normal bone) 
• Nasal dermoids (dermoid cysts under the skin of the nose)
• Encephaloceles (type of neural tube defect that affects the brain; present at birth)
• Hypertelorism  (abnormally wide-set eyes)
• Traumatic facial deformities (facial injuries)