Prophylactic Craniofacial Surgery

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Abstract
One-stage radical reconstructive surgery for the common craniofacial deformities has become standard procedure in a few medical centers. With increasing experience and expertise, young children und adolescents, as well as a few adults have been greatly benefited. It has long been recognized that both the cranial and facial deformities of Couzon’s disease and Apert’s syndrome are progressive, having their inception either before birth or in the neonatal period, and evolving to the full blown syndrome during the first years of life. The authors believe that the progressive nature of these anomalies is secondary to a combination of permaturely fused sutures of the calvarium and cranial base (coronal, sphenozygomatic, frontoethmoidal and frontosphenoidal).

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