Weird dent on Childs forehead

LimeLime · 20/10/2024 09:37

I tripped on a concrete driveway when I was a toddler and still have a dent in the middle of my forehead though it is somewhat deeper than your daughter's so hers might well fade away.

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OneLilacTraybake · 20/10/2024 10:16

Thank you for your response @LimeLime
Can I ask if you always had the dent right from the day you tripped as a toddler, or did the dent grow as you did?

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OneLilacTraybake · 20/10/2024 10:21

@LimeLime My daughters seems to have done the opposite. It was less obvious when she was younger. Has become more prominent in the last few months.

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OldTinHat · 20/10/2024 10:30

I ran into the metal shelf of a gas/electric meter when I was about 8. Forehead split open, hospital, stitches.

Anyway, the scar left was dented iyswim. It went from neat to now. I'm in my 50s, and it's sort of spread, enlarged and definitely more dented over the years. Never caused me any bother. I'm just an old woman with a dent in her head!

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OneLilacTraybake · 20/10/2024 10:39

Oh thank you @OldTinHat That has given me some relief! Although I am sorry to hear about your injury! I think this may be the case with my daughter it maybe has just stretched and become more obvious as the skull has grown. I really ought to avoid google 😂 Thank you for your reply

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LostittoBostik · 20/10/2024 10:41

My daughter who was 2 at the time fell on the corner of her play kitchen as a toddler and had a v small but deep cut - treated at home due to lockdown and because she had no severe bleeding or concussion symptoms.
She is 7 and still has a small dent and scar.

blessedarethequichemakers · 20/10/2024 10:43

Someone I know fell as a child on bike and you can still see the pattern of the rubber handlebar grips on their forehead.

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OneLilacTraybake · 20/10/2024 11:22

Thank you for all your reassuring responses. I think what is still slightly bothering me is that is wasn’t so obvious at the time or for a few years after, it just seems to be more prominent lately. So is it actually an old scar or something else? It also depends on the expression she’s pulling, maybe as she getting older she frowns and eye rolls me more often than she did at 5 or 6 😂 so it’s more obvious that way. 🤷‍♀️

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LostittoBostik · 20/10/2024 12:53

It's probably also that the scar is growing with her, so it will get larger

LimeLime · 20/10/2024 14:18

I think it grew a bit, but it's not huge, and certainly not something people notice and remark on.

LimeLime · 20/10/2024 14:20

OneLilacTraybake · 20/10/2024 11:22

Thank you for all your reassuring responses. I think what is still slightly bothering me is that is wasn’t so obvious at the time or for a few years after, it just seems to be more prominent lately. So is it actually an old scar or something else? It also depends on the expression she’s pulling, maybe as she getting older she frowns and eye rolls me more often than she did at 5 or 6 😂 so it’s more obvious that way. 🤷‍♀️

Nowadays I have to frown to show it off to its full extent.

KeepingItReal2017 · 28/11/2024 14:47

OneLilacTraybake · 20/10/2024 08:56

Hi
A few months ago I noticed a dent on my 10year old daughter’s forehead.
Years prior, maybe about 5, she tripped and fell on holiday and hit this part of her head on a concrete floor. There has always maybe been a slight mark, graze to the same area, nothing too noticeable, until now - 5 years later. Anyway, a trip to the gp resulted in them thinking she had obviously just bumped her head recently, saying it looked slightly bruised. I disagreed with the gp as I had taken photos two weeks prior without any bruising ( the light wasn’t great in the gp room as it was definitely not bruised ). I mentioned this fall from 5 years prior. The gp then decided that maybe this could have been a scar that had stretched and caused the dent. Stupidly I have googled ‘dent in forehead’ and caused myself some worry. It hasn’t helped she had a blood test and the result had low white blood cells - gp again not concerned, suggested a repeat one - that I had to chase - which is in a weeks time.
So basically I am wondering if anyone has come across this in a child or maybe adult before and what did it turn out to be? Could it be a scar that has suddenly appeared from an accident 5 years ago as her head has grown? Sounds reasonable enough. Or have I distracted the gp with this story and there could be some weird growth/bone mass. I am just concerned that I have mentioned this bump to the head when it could have absolutely no relevance. Or maybe it does. I don’t know 😱 I asked for an X-ray which was refused. She is fine in herself no other concerns just maybe a-bit more tired than usual but some of her after school clubs are on late.

Oh wow, this could have been my message and photo! Almost 5 years ago my daughter slipped from a chair to the kitchen floor. I iced her head, breastfed her, checked for any odd behaviour etc and left it to heal. It was bruised for ages… anyway I realised months later that it wasn’t a bruise I saw but a dent. I went back to look at the photos of around the injury time and it was dented from the off.

i had a phone apt with the GP (Covid era) and showed photos and explained it all, they said it was likely soft tissue damage that would fade.

years later it remains. From time to time I’ll be consumed by thoughts of it. I’ve had her checked more recently by 2 GPs who said it’s normal soft tissue damage… with slight discolouration, not too noticeable to others and it might fade in time.

no one notices except for me, consumed with mum guilt! She doesn’t even see it herself.

I have to remind myself that she has no brain damage, the shape of the dent changes when she raises her brows so it obviously is tissue and not a school dent.

if she dislikes it as she is older she can look into getting a fridge or seeking advise for Botox …

anyway wanted to reassure you!