What are the disadvantages of PEEK Cranial Repair? Cranial bone plays a role in protecting and supporting the brain, sensory organs, and the starting part of digestive and respiratory organs. If there is a defect, it can bring a series of neurological symptoms to the patient, such as severe headache, dizziness, easy fatigue, irritability, memory loss, depression, and decreased tolerance to vibration and sound. Therefore, when a patient has a skull defect, he or she should have a skull repair surgery as soon as possible. If the diameter of cranial defect is more than 3cm, the cranial defect is aesthetic, the cranial defect has related clinical symptoms, such as dizziness, headache and other symptoms or psychological burden affecting the life and work, then the cranial bone repair surgery should be done. Cranial defect repair surgery timing, patients such as no contraindications to surgery, in the case of the condition allows, advocate early cranial repair molding, early cranial repair molding refers to the time less than three months. The current clinical use of new polyether ether ketone PEEK material for cranial bone repair, proven by clinical practice experience, a large number of cases confirmed that PEEK material repair of the cranium, does not affect the postoperative medical examination. Because PPEEK material has very good tissue compatibility, basically will not produce rejection reaction; PEEK material is based on the patient’s cranial CT data for three-dimensional shaping, highly restore the physiological structure of the skull. What are the disadvantages of PEEK? The PEEK cranial material has the advantages that traditional titanium mesh is difficult to have, but the price of this material is also higher than titanium mesh, patients need to choose according to their own situation. The PEEK skull is an embedded repair with a smooth appearance and does not produce the cutting injuries associated with titanium mesh overlay repairs.