Re: crooked smile and brachycephaly?

[Guest guest]

WOW!!! The correction she has recieved is just AMAZING!!! Even my 14 year old daughter commented on it!!!

And she is just BEAUTIFUL!!!!

My daughter also has an asymmetric smile... but my dd has tort and had plagio not brachy. Her lower jaw has always slanted from her tort side down to the right. I've put some pics below for you to see the similarities. Have you seen a cranio-facial dr yet? Ours said thet we are going to watch it and see if she is going to need intervention as she gets older. He bottom eye tooth on the left is the tooth that sticks out the farthest.

View full size

Luli 6 month old

View full size

Luli 17 mo. old

View full size

Luli 22 months old

View full size

Luli 24 months old

Jen and Luli - 28 months

Left tort - Right Plagio - Hanger Band Grad - CA

http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/j/jens5th/

crooked smile and brachycephaly?

My 10 1/2 month old daughter had moderate - severe brachycephaly and

began wearing a Starband at 7 1/2 months. I noticed, at about 6 1/2

months, that her smile sometimes appeared crooked. Since the band,

she's gotten 5 more teeth (she had 3 already). Since her 4 top teeth

have come in, I noticed that the crooked smile appears worse, more

often. She doesn't always smile with it crooked, but I notice it more

and more in pictures and a little warning bell is going off in my

head. It seems like as her brachy is getting better, her smile is

becoming more crooked more often.

Is this possible? I am not sure what can be done about it, if anything

or where to begin. The neurosurgeon and cranio-facial doctor I took

her too weren't very helpful regarding using a helmet - both told me

that her hair would cover the flatness as she became older but 'if it

bothers me' then they'd give me a script for it. So I don't really

trust their opinions about this either now.

I posted a few pictures in the phots section "Avery G Starband"

http://health.ph./group/Plagiocephaly/photos/browse/7abd

Could her smile be crooked due to the sensation of her top and bottom

teeth coming in possibly or is this something that is a result of the

brachy and/or helmet?

Thanks!

Get the MapQuest Toolbar, Maps, Traffic, Directions More!