Re: new.. helmet from u of m (michigan)

[Guest guest]

I think that as long as it's a custom made band from Danmar, and the

ortho is experienced, you should be fine. It's the off the shelf

Danmar helmets that I've heard horror stories about.

Sorry if I confused you. I paint, then sticker, then mod podge. When

I want to change it, I just peel the whole thing, stickers, paint

and all, off in big pieces. I did once remove a sticker once it was

mod podged and reused it (my original paint job was terrible and I

had to redo it, but I couldn't get another sticker - it was a

Detroit Tigers D for a baseball helmet), but I had to be very

careful and I only had like 2 layers of mod podge on it. Not sure I

would have been able to do it with more. But generally, once I'm

ready to change it, I just scrap the whole paint job and start fresh

with all new paint, stickers and mod podge. There are some pics of

my son's paint jobs under Jake W. in the plagio/J folder. I have a

couple more designs I still need to add to it.

Jake-20m (tort resolved/rt plagio/DOCBand 15 weeks)

Jordan-4

> >

> > Hello,

> >

> > I just discovered this board.. My 3rd son born in nov 07, was dx

> as

> > having plagio (12mm) at 6 months. He is now almost 7 mos (on

june

> > 9th). We went ahead and decided to do treatment. We received his

> > helmet yesterday. I was really unaware of this type of problem.

> we

> > first started to notice his head getting flat at around 3 1/2 to

4

> > mos. His ped told us to reposition...blah blah ...that did'nt

> work

> > so at his 6 month check up she referred us to U Of M...we

ordered

> the

> > helmet a couple of days after the appt. we were really unaware

> that

> > their were other bands/helmets available (doc/ starband). Well

> now

> > after doing research on here...I'm really worried that his

helmet

> is

> > not going to work as well as the doc/star. anyone with

expierence

> > from the U of M? It was custom made (they did the scanner thing

> not

> > the casting) if anyone has any info on them please share it...We

> > already paid for 1/2 of it $600 our insurance paid for the other

> > half. this seems cheap to me after seeing how much some of you

> have

> > paid for yours. Of course you get what you pay for...so I am

> pretty

> > concerned..

> >

> > next ? I plan on painting it and decorating it with stickers..I

> see

> > alot of people do paint, stickers and then mod podge? if I do it

> in

> > this order...am I stuck with the stickers or is there a way to

> remove

> > them and re do or repaint it?

> >

> > I will post some pictures of him when I get a chance...

> >

> >

> > Thank you,

> >

> > , mom to 7 1/2, Christian 4 1/2 & Chase almost 7 months

> >

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