Craniofacial
Craniofacial
Our pediatric plastic surgeons treat cleft lip and palate, craniofacial syndromes, facial nerve palsy, hand and wrist problems and other differences.
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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)
Our craniofacial care team
- Mark Dias, MD, Co-Director, Neurosurgery
- Thomas Samson, MD, Co-Director, Plastic Surgery
- Amanda Ely, MD, Opthalmology
- Cathy Henry, MD, Plastic Surgery
- Mark Iantosca, MD, Neurosurgery
- Roger Ladda, MD, Genetics
- Donald Mackay, MD, Plastic Surgery
- Elias Rizk, MD, Neurosurgery
- Ajay Soni, MD, Pediatric Ophthalmology