Katya's Results - Older children

[Guest guest]

Hello,

About a weeks ago we got two of Katya's molds from Cranial

Technologies. As many of you know, Katya started the DOC band

treatment when 14 months old and graduated at 18.5 months old. She

had moderate plagio.

Unfortunately, CT didn't give us any information on how much of a

correction she got, and from speaking with Charlotte at Paramus

office in New Jersey I got the understanding that they never give

this kind of info (I mean - percentage of correction).

When I compare the molds I see that the shape of Katya's head almost

didn't change. The only change that I see is that the edges of the

flat areas became smoother. By the way, the size of a head didn't

change over this 4.5 months. I think this is a major reason why we

didn't get a lot of improvement. Katya's head was in 95% when she

started the treatment. I don't think it grew at all over those 4.5

months of treatment.

I always heard that there are lots of parents of older kids (13-15

months of age) on this board that got great improvement , but for

some reason I never had a chance to talk to them. If any of them are

reading this message, please get back to me. I am just very curious

about your results.

Thank you,

Leana, Katya's mom (almost 20 months old, DOC band graduate)

[Guest guest]

Leana,

We never had an official percentage given to us after completion either, just

a guess of correction visually. If you can see that the edges are not as

prominent, that's a great sign that there has been some change, even though

you feel it is minimal. I would hope that the band at least started her

headshape growing in the correct way, with many months ahead to gain for it

completing to round a bit. My friend's son had severe brachy and they did

not band, I saw him last weekend and his headshape has rounded a bit towards

the top, definetly not as bad as it was. We also feel that has

rounded out a bit more since banding. I have a hard time seeing things on

the head mold- it didn't look quite as severe looking at it recently for some

reason. I took someone's advice and let it lay on the counter, it just

rolled straight to the right, which confirmed to me that it was that bad.

Otherwise, I might have second guessed that it was (except his ears were very

misaligned, had facial asymmetry, so these things were obvious- but the flat

spots didn't look as bad as they actually were, I think). In any event,

Katya has had some improvement, so that's great!!!! Keep us posted- it would

be great to hear that you have seen additional improvement on its own- and I

hope other members with older babies can share their thoughts with you on

their outcomes as well. Congrats to Katya on graduating!!!!

' Mom