Re: Change from STAR to DOCband?!!?! TO RACHEL

[Guest guest]

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Hopefully the times are a changing for Tricare! Maybe Christi

slapped them so hard it woke them up

That is wonderful that you will be able to visit with your family

during trips to Atlanta, if that's what you do.

> > >I had written the other day asking everyone with the STARband

what

> > type of

> > >doctor they were seeing for follow up. I then wrote saying

that

> > we were

> > >getting a referral to a cranial facial surgeon in Pensacola,

FL.

> > Well,

> > >things have changed now and my insurance company (Tricare) is

> > sending us to

> > >the University of Alabama to see a pediatric neurosurgeon and a

> > pediatric

> > >plastic surgeon. My insurance company said that is where they

> > send babies in

> > >our region and they are just " the best. " The doctors said that

> > they do not

> > >recommend the STARband and prefer the DOCband. There is a

> > possibility that

> > >they would change bands if they are not seeing good enough

> > correction with

> > >the STAR. My insurance company said that this is up to the

> > doctors and

> > >ourselves to decide if we want to do that. He has been in it

for

> > going on

> > >three months now and I have seen good correction but not as

much

> > as I would

> > >like with the right side of his forehead and the right ear

(moved

> > forward and

> > >does not look the same as the left ear). Wanted to see if

other

> > babies have

> > >seen improvement who have had the problem with the forehead and

> > ear

> > >misalignment. Does the ear go back to normal? I have seen

that

> > the forehead

> > >improves but haven't heard much about the ears. Has anyone had

> > any

> > >experience with going from one band to another? Also, does

anyone

> > know or go

> > >to this facility in Birmingham? All I can say is thank

goodness

> > for my

> > >insurance company! They even reimburse for the trip there.

> > >Thanks,

> > >

> > >Panama City Beach, FL

> > >Ethan STARband since Aug. 2002

> >