Sunday, April 15, 2012

follow up with Dr. Cohen - cranial facial surgeon

Last week we saw Dr. Cohen, the cranial facial plastic surgeon at Children's hospital. He is a very good surgeon. He runs a very nice plastic surgery practice for adults and works at children's 1 and a 1/2 days a week. Dave says his work at the Children's Hospital is practically charity and that he is there for the love of his patients and the good he does. Dave used to operate with Dr. Cohen 1 day a week when he worked there.

A review of Calvin's head CT shows that his brain is normal and healthy. It also shows some minor deformities of his skull which remain. Dr. Cohen recommends a surgery to correct the recessed brow and forehead area. It is a simple, outpatient procedure. He will use the old scar line on Calvin's head and will go under the skin (but not cut the skull), use liquid bone stuff on top of the current bone to reshape the brow area.

We decided we would go ahead and book the surgery for fall.

When Dave looked carefully over the CT scan he saw several areas where the bone is very thin and also many little holes where the skull. Dave was a bit concerned about this and wondered if we should re-think Calvin's clearance to play football and any other contact sport. Dr. Cohen assures us that the holes are teeny tiny and nothing to worry about. I am not sure that it makes any difference since Calvin is not very athletic but it is nice to know that should he one day try to realize his dream of playing Michigan football, he will allowed to go forward!

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