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West Texas Craniofacial Center of Excellence
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Texas Tech Physicians |
Covenant Clinic |
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About Us:
Texas Tech Physicians and Covenant Women’s and Children’s Hospital have joined forces to create the West Texas Craniofacial Center of Excellence, serving infants, children and adults with abnormal head and facial deformities. Led by Joshua Demke, M.D., craniofacial surgeon, and Lazlo Nagy, M.D., pediatric neurosurgeon, the multi-disciplinary team provides cohesive services for your patients with conditions such as:
- Flat, long or short heads
- Pointy and keel-shaped foreheads
- Under-projected mid-faces
- Flat cheekbones
- Occlusion abnormalities including anterior open bites and occlusal cant (hemifacial microsomias), airway distress secondary to small jaw/glossoptosis (Pierre-Robin) sequence
- Cleft lip and palate repair, alveolar bone grafting and reconstruction of missing or deformed ears.
Infants with complicated nasofrontal, nasoethmoid and nasorbital encephalocele can also be seen.
Services
- Differentiating positional/deformational plagiocephaly from craniosyostosis
- Non-surgical management of positional plagiocephaly ranging from teaching about repositioning maneuvers to referrals for molding helmets
- Surgical management of isolated single suture synostosis including sagittal, metopic, coronal and lambdoid deformities to more complex syndromic cases with bicoronal synostosis, including Aperts, Crouzons, Muenkes, Pfeiffers and Carpenter syndromes
- Conventional orthognathic and distraction techniques for infants and children with small jaws including Pierre-Robin Syndrome, Goldenhaar, hemifacial microsomia and Treacher-Collins Syndrome
- Orbital surgery for children with hypertelorism
- Reconstruction of cleft lip and palate
- Reconstruction of microtia
Appointments
Dr. Demke sees patients at the Texas Tech Physicians Medical Pavilion in the Surgery Clinic. His clinic days are Tuesday and Thursday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Please call (806)743-2373 for a referral.
Dr. Nagy sees patients at Covenant Women’s and Children’s Hospital. Call (806)743-7700 for a referral.
If a patient needs to see both Dr. Demke and Dr. Nagy, arrangements will be made to see the patient on the same day. This will allow better coordination of care for patients who must travel to Lubbock.
Directors
Joshua Demke, M.D.
- Undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
- Medical degree from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, Lubbock, Texas
- Surgical residency at the University of North Carolina Department of Otolaryngology, Chapel Hill, N.C.
- Fellowship in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery at SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, N.Y. His fellowship emphasized complicated craniomaxillofacial deformities as well as cleft lip, cleft palate, microtia reconstruction and occuloplastics
Laszlo Nagy, M.D.
- Medical degree from Medical School of Semmelweis University, Budapest
Hungary - Clinical Fellowship at the Department of Pediatrics Neurosurgery Children’s Medical Center South-Western Clinic of University of Texas, Dallas
- Specializes in the full spectrum of pediatric neurosurgery including a special interest in congenital deformities of the head and head trauma and injury
Team Members
Tammy Camp, M.D.
Pediatrician, Texas Tech Physicians
Desiree Pendergrass, M.D.
Pediatrician
Dr. Camp and Dr. Pendergrass will screen infants and children for cardiac, renal, feeding or airway problems often associated with syndromic craniofacial deformities.
Alan Eisenbaum, M.D.
Pediatric ophthalmologist, Texas Tech Physicians
Curt Cockings, M.D.
Pediatric ophthalmologist
Dr. Eisenbaum and Dr. Cockings will screen infants and children with abnormal head shapes for any evidence of optic disc swelling of papilledema suggestive of elevated intracranial pressure. They will also screen for any visual loss secondary to optic neuropathy, amblyopia or exposure keratopathy as a results of small orbital volume in syndromic synostoses.
