Re: Can plagio cause a crooked smile?

[Guest guest]

Tort can definitely cause a crooked smile, and possibly plagio too.

Someone else was posting that it could look more crooked with only

some of the teeth in, although I don't know if that is true or not. I

don't think it is neurological, but maybe it is good that your doctor

is checking.

Let us know what that neuro says & good luck.

-christine

sydney 2 yrs starband grad

>

> My daughter has been in her helmet for 5 months now and we have seen

> quite a bit of improvement to her flat spot and some improvement to her

> facial asymmetries. However, over the past 2 months, I have noticed

> that her smile has gotten very crooked. And it's the same thing when

> she cries. She didn't have any asymmetrie to her jaw when we started

> this process. She looks fine as long as she doesn't smile, laugh or cry.

>

> I took her today for her 1 year check up and her pediatrician noticed

> her jaw being off and made us an appointment to see a neurologist,

> which is freaking me out. He said he normally didn't see something like

> this happening in older babies all of the sudden. He didn't know what

> could have caused this, but we got an emergency appointment with the

> neurologist for tomorrow, which tells me that this could be very

> serious.

>

> Has anybody else seen this happening? Could this be caused by the band?

> She also has torticollis, which is not quite resolved yet, but has

> gotten better.

>

> I know we are going tomorrow and will hopefully find out that

> everything is fine with her, but I am really worried and wanted to get

> as much information on this as possible.

>

[Guest guest]

How many teeth does your daughter have? Is it possible that her jaw

might have been a little crooked even before the band and you just

didn't notice because she didn't have any teeth? Once the top and

bottom teeth come in, I can see it being more noticeable because you

can actually see where the teeth are supposed to line up. My son

appeared to have a crooked jaw earlier when he had only a handful of

teeth, but now that he has a full mouth full, it doesn't look

crooked anymore. He also had tort though which has been resolved, so

maybe that had something to do with it as well.

Please let us know what the specialist says.

Jake-20m (tort resolved/rt plagio/DOCBand 12 weeks)

Jordan-4

>

> My daughter has been in her helmet for 5 months now and we have

seen

> quite a bit of improvement to her flat spot and some improvement

to her

> facial asymmetries. However, over the past 2 months, I have

noticed

> that her smile has gotten very crooked. And it's the same thing

when

> she cries. She didn't have any asymmetrie to her jaw when we

started

> this process. She looks fine as long as she doesn't smile, laugh

or cry.

>

> I took her today for her 1 year check up and her pediatrician

noticed

> her jaw being off and made us an appointment to see a neurologist,

> which is freaking me out. He said he normally didn't see something

like

> this happening in older babies all of the sudden. He didn't know

what

> could have caused this, but we got an emergency appointment with

the

> neurologist for tomorrow, which tells me that this could be very

> serious.

>

> Has anybody else seen this happening? Could this be caused by the

band?

> She also has torticollis, which is not quite resolved yet, but has

> gotten better.

>

> I know we are going tomorrow and will hopefully find out that

> everything is fine with her, but I am really worried and wanted to

get

> as much information on this as possible.

>