Physician: Patient
Care: Growth Charts and Craniofacial Measurements
Table A-2 Detailed suture closure
Cranial suture
Closure
Begins
(years)
Facial suture
Closure
Begins
(years)
Interfrontal (metopic)a
2
Intermaxillary (midpalatal)
30-35
Interparietal (midsagittal)
22
Frontomaxillary
68-71
Frontoparietal (coronal)
24
Frontonasal
68
Occipitoparietal (lambdoidal)
26
Frontozygomatic
72
Masto-occipital
26-30
Zygomaticotemporal
70-71
Sphenotemporal
28-32
Zygomaticomaxillary
70-72
Temporoparietal (squamosal)
35-39
Nasomaxillary
68
Sphenoparietal
29
Sphenofrontal
22
aUsually obliterated
by third year; persists throughout life in 10%.
(From VC Kokich, The biology of sutures. In: Craniosynostosis:
Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Management, MM Cohen Jr (ed), Raven
Press, New York, 1986, p94.)
