Babies With Flat Heads On The Rise

According to the american academy of family physicians it affects up to 50 percent.

Babies with flat heads on the rise.

Now he figures that babies with flat heads account for one of every four new outpatient visits at a i dupont hospital for children in wilmington del where he is a neurosurgeon. The concern is a cosmetic or aesthetic one. A new review of the texas birth defects registry shows that cases of flattened heads. Although there has been a recent rise in the incidence of flat head syndrome placing your baby on the back is often not the main cause of the condition.

Flat heads on the rise dr. Positional plagiocephaly also called deformational plagiocephaly is the most common type of flat head syndrome. April 5 2011 5 26 pm cbs news cbs flat headed babies appear to be on the rise at least in texas. Doctors point out it doesn t inhibit brain development or.