[3] Figure 1 illustrates the boney anatomy of the normal skull sutures and fontanelles. The newborn infant's skull is incompletely ossified and the cranial sutures are normally open at birth ...

The bones are connected by soft, flexible tissue called sutures. Over the first 2 years of life, a baby’s brain grows rapidly. During this time, the cranial sutures allow the skull to expand ...

They may be doing helmet therapy or cranial orthosis ... These plates are held together by fibrous tissue or sutures. These sutures allow our skull to expand as our brains grow.

The sutures meet at the fontanelles ... This surgery takes 1 hour and is less likely to require a blood transfusion than cranial vault remodeling. An infant wears a cranial orthotic helmet ...

“We examined abnormalities in cranial sutures that might have formed during growth and development by utilizing a novel 3D visualization method of cranial surfaces,” Seguchi and Loftus explaine ...