Teddi Mellencamp, 39, had alarming news on July 6: her four-month-old daughter, Dove, was diagnosed with Lambdoid Craniosynostosis and is undergoing neurosurgery by the end of the month.
While this diagnosis is “extremely uncommon,” the procedure is “not very complicated,” Dr. Daniel Roshan, New York City’s top high-risk, maternal-fetal OB-GYN, EXCLUSIVELY told HollywoodLife.
We spoke with Dr. Roshan, in addition to Tim Vogel M.D. (a board-certified pediatric neurosurgeon at the North Jersey Brain and Spine Center), who both explained what exactly is Lambdoid Craniosynostosis, the potential dangers of this condition and what the correcting surgery entails. “Craniosynostosis is when the sutures of the baby’s skull fuse, or come together,
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