Your cranial bones are held together by unique joints called sutures, which are made of thick connective tissue. They’re irregularly shaped, allowing them to tightly join all the uniquely shaped ...

At birth the bones of the skull are in place but not fused together. The places where the bones meet are called sutures, and while they will eventually fuse into bone there are several reasons why ...

Cranial suture dysfunction is a condition much like spinal joint dysfunction in which the joints of the skull (the cranial sutures where the bones are joined together) become immobile, hypomobile ...

By age 2, all the sutures start to become bone, fusing the skull bones. Medical professionals refer to this as the “ closure ” of the sutures and fontanelles.

Craniosynostosis is a condition in which the bones of a baby’s skull fuse together too early, causing asymmetric head and brain growth. At birth, your baby’s skull is made up of six bony plates.

Also the skull bones or cranium grows along with the brain. This happens as the suture lines increase. By the age of two the baby’s skull would have achieved two third of its adult size.

The cranial sutures are the joints between the bones of the skull and like tectonic plates they have minute amounts of motion which are easily demonstrable with patients in dysfunction.