Telecanthus is defined as:
Increased width of the nasal bridge line. Increased width of the nasal bridge line is due to the increased distance from the medial canthus to the nose.
In relation to presurgical orthopaedics in the context of cleft lip and palate:
Can be undertaken simply by use of an obturator. Presurgical orthopaedics is controversial and not universally accepted.
Brachycephaly is the term for:
A wide skull. It is most commonly caused by bicoronal synostosis as in Crouzon’s syndrome or Apert’s. The skull is often tower-shaped and high and often referred to as turribrachycephaly.
Unilateral coronal craniosynostosis results in:
Plagiocephaly. Plagiocephaly literally means ‘twisted skull’. This can be frontal plagiocephaly from unilateral coronal synostosis or occipital due to unilateral lambdoidal synostosis.
Premature closure of the metopic suture results in:
Trigonocephaly.
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