Re: Question for grads regarding facial asymmetry

[Guest guest]

,

My daughter had some facial assym. prior to wearing her STARband,

but improved greatly during treatment, but not until in the last

month or so. Sometimes I think I can still see some of it, but I

think its because I know where to look. If I were to ask anyone off

the street, they would never be able to pinpoint any assym. I

remember reading before that sometimes the assym. looks worse when

looking in the mirror could be because we are seeing it on the

opposite side than we are used to, know what I mean? Give it some

time, hopefully during the next month or so, you'll start to see

improvement. How is the rest of her head doing? Are you seeing

improvement there?

Niki

Kaylie & Danny (STAR grads)

Phila., PA

> Hi everyone,

>

> My daughter has been wearing her DOC band for 2 months now and we

> have seen some great improvements. However, it does not seem that

> her facial asymmetry is improving. Her right cheek is fuller and

> there is a 'bump' over her left ear that has not improved. It's

not

> that we were guaranteed it would improve, but I was hoping it

would.

> For the most part, the facial asymmetry is not noticable to anyone

> but it is greatly noticable in the mirror. My question is has

anyone

> seen improvement in facial asymmetry?

>

> Thanks!

>

> NJ

[Guest guest]

:

Facial assymetries as well as ear assymetries are often the hardest

to correct on plagio babies. My daughter's assymetries did improve

while she wore her band, however, I can still notice them.

Especially in the mirror like you were saying, I wonder why that is?

I saw Niki's reply to you about the mirror and that makes good sense

to me! I had never thought about that.

Give it more time, your daughter still probably has 2 more mos in her

band with more improvement to come :-).

Debbie Abby's mom DOCGrad 6/01

MI

> Hi everyone,

>

> My daughter has been wearing her DOC band for 2 months now and we

> have seen some great improvements. However, it does not seem that

> her facial asymmetry is improving. Her right cheek is fuller and

> there is a 'bump' over her left ear that has not improved. It's

not

> that we were guaranteed it would improve, but I was hoping it

would.

> For the most part, the facial asymmetry is not noticable to anyone

> but it is greatly noticable in the mirror. My question is has

anyone

> seen improvement in facial asymmetry?

>

> Thanks!

>

> NJ