What prompted you to set up the plagiocephaly.information website?
I started the plagiocephaly.information website (first as plagiocephaly.org in 1999) to inform parents and healthcare givers about plagiocephaly and to provide parents with the contact information for physicians who were familiar with plagiocephaly and craniosynostosis. By 1999, I had been involved in craniofacial research for 16 yearsinitially, at the Cleft Palate Center at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, and later, at the Advance Surgical Institutes at Medical City Dallas Hospital in Dallas, TX. I become involved with the treatment of plagiocephaly in 1992 while a research scientist at Medical City Dallas. At that time, surgery was the only accepted treatment for plagiocephaly. In addition, plagiocephaly was often mistaken for craniosynostosiscraniosynostosis can only be corrected with surgery. Consequently, infants were undergoing very invasive cranial surgery procedures for a plagiocephaly. In 1992, I was asked to evaluate a new non-surgical treatment for treating plagioce
