Scientists have identified two genetic risk factors for the most common form of non-syndromic craniosynostosis, a birth defect in which the bony plates of an infant's skull prematurely fuse.

Helmet therapy is used to correct the shape of babies’ skulls over time. Learn more about why some babies have to wear helmets.

Metopic craniosynostosis is a rare condition in infants in which the metopic suture, a part of the skull, fuses earlier than it typically would. Learn more here.

Mechanical Force on the Skull May Aid Bone Regeneration By mechanically inducing the expansion of cranial sutures in young adult mice, researchers stimulated stem cell proliferation that is key to ...

Premature ossification of the sutures, or craniosynostosis, will inhibit proper cranial bone movement and skull growth. Figure 1. The bones, sutures, and fontanels of the face and skull.

Look for the sagittal suture – the squiggly line that runs the length of the skull – and note whether is it's completely fused. If it is, the remains are likely to be of someone older than 35 ...

It is called the sagittal plane because it goes through or is parallel to the sagittal suture, the line running along the top of the skull that marks where the left and right halves of the skull ...

The skull is made of several pieces of bone and the sutures between them typically stay open for most of humans’ lives. The malleable suture lines allow babies to squeeze through the birth canal ...

It turned out Albie has Sagittal Craniosynostosis - a rare condition affecting just one in 2,500 births. Newborn babies have flexible material called sutures that hold parts of their skull together.

Incredibly, the man survived because the key went through the sagittal suture – connecting tissue between the two parietal bones of the skull.