Developing technologies to improve the treatment of craniosynostosis in children
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 - 14:00
in Health & Medicine
Engineers and surgeons are working together to improve the treatment of babies born with craniosynostosis, a condition that causes the bone plates in the skull to fuse too soon. Treating this condition typically requires surgery after birth to remove portions of the fused skull bones, and in some cases the bones grow together again too quickly -- requiring additional surgeries.