Anterior Fontanelle Closure Too Early

This may limit brain growth.

Anterior fontanelle closure too early. Most kids will have what feels to be closure of the anterior fontanel by 15 18 mo but some may persist. Joints made of strong fibrous tissue cranial sutures hold the bones of your baby s skull together. The sutures meet at the fontanels the soft spots on your baby s head.

Small fontanel in children is a smaller than normal size off the soft spot on the top of the head of a very young child. Closes too soon. A 29 year old female asked.

Premature closure of the sutures may also cause the pressure inside of the head to increase. Prenatal trauma to the brain such as maternal alcohol abuse. The two primary fontanelles are the a nterior fontanelle and posterior fontanelle.

They are not too large to begin. The borders at which these plates intersect are called sutures or suture lines. A condition in which the sutures close too early called craniosynostosis has been associated with early fontanelle closure.

A condition in which the sutures close too early called craniosynostosis has been associated with early fontanelle closure. Early closing of a suture causes the baby to have an abnormally shaped head. They normally close fuse by the time the child is 2 or 3 years old.

It is in the upper front portion of your baby s head at the junction of three different sutures. Causes of small fontanel in children early closure of fontanel in children. The largest fontanel is at the front anterior.