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By examining the image below to see how the fontanels, described, grow and fuse with the other bones to form the sutures. Although these sutures are as unique as fingerprints, as they cannot be seen antemortem (not without surgery, or a violent accident), they are not useful in terms of identification.
Inca skull after Trephination. The lack of bone growth after the surgery indicates that the treatment was likely worse than the disease
View of wound in skull after trephination and removal of shattered bone, shown at bottom left. From Charles Bell, The Great Operations of Surgery, London, 1821. Etching by Thomas Landseer, after Bell.
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A prematurely fused sagittal suture, forcing the skull to elongate to allow for the expanding brain during growth
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