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Will The Ridge On The Forehead Disappears As The Child Grows?

Please help me..... My baby 2.5 years....he is pretty normal in every thing....talk and make sentence of 3 words even more...count from one to ten in english and arabic....tell me the sound of animal if i asked him....kow some colours and do matchs....walk and run and eat normally.... He have congenital aortic valve stenosis....had congenital inguinal hernia operation when he was 40 days....have upper libial fernula.... When he was 1.5 years i began to fell a ridge on his forhead...but not seen....just felt it....its more promenant in between brows and then it fades up ward to become promenant again beneath hair.... I was not o much concerneed and i felt its normal thing....but 2 monthes ago he hit his forhead at a pointed end of table....he had sever hematoma....we went to ER and did CT scan....doctors said it was so normal...i didnt ask him about the ridge...but other doctor point on the CT on the site of ridge and said that is becouse he is a child !!!...now the hematoma go....but the ridge is seen....there is a soft pulge over it (not bone)then when i press i fell the bone ridge....is that because of the hematoma????my child have metopic cranio????or just a ridge????will he be normal child?????does that ridge can affect him now????i read that the suture close at age of one year....and he is now 2.5 y...so where is the problem????and if there is no neurological problem ..what about his look????will that ridge fade and dissappearwhen he gets older????he loss some wieght this days ...that may the cause it bec
Wed, 19 Nov 2014
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Your child may have had early closure of the metopic suture, one of the seams of the skull that close during early childhood. When a suture closes early, there can be narrowing of the area that would have grown if the suture remained open a normal amount of time. The metric suture, in the middle of the forehead, continues on to the sagittal suture which goes from the forehead straight back to the back of the head. Closure of these sutures is not of any clinical significance but can present concern about cosmetic appearance. Most of the time this is not an issue for the child as it is so mild as to be unnoticed unless one looks very closely. The only concern for early suture closure arises when there is closure interfering with brain growth in two directions. Then surgery to reopen the sutures is done. Your child will be a normal child and the appearance you are so concerned about now will seem like nothing in the future.
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Will The Ridge On The Forehead Disappears As The Child Grows?

Your child may have had early closure of the metopic suture, one of the seams of the skull that close during early childhood. When a suture closes early, there can be narrowing of the area that would have grown if the suture remained open a normal amount of time. The metric suture, in the middle of the forehead, continues on to the sagittal suture which goes from the forehead straight back to the back of the head. Closure of these sutures is not of any clinical significance but can present concern about cosmetic appearance. Most of the time this is not an issue for the child as it is so mild as to be unnoticed unless one looks very closely. The only concern for early suture closure arises when there is closure interfering with brain growth in two directions. Then surgery to reopen the sutures is done. Your child will be a normal child and the appearance you are so concerned about now will seem like nothing in the future.