How risky is cranial repair

Cranial defects are one of the most common neurosurgical disorders, and if they are not repaired in a timely manner, they may cause secondary damage to the body. In the opinion of many people, “repairing the skull” must be very dangerous, but is it really so? Today, we’re going to talk to you about the risks of skull repair. In terms of the risks of the surgery itself, the risks are not that high. Including the cranial bone repair surgery that we are doing now, basically it means that during the surgery, the bleeding is only about 10 milliliters for the whole surgery. We have more than 10 milliliters of blood in a normal medical checkup, more than two tubes of blood. So the surgery itself is not very dangerous, it’s a very safe type of surgery. Moreover, the materials we use now are very good materials, which have been perfectly designed before the operation, and they are directly set into the skull. According to experts, cranial bone repair surgery can be accepted as long as the patient does not have any other serious diseases due to the relatively mature technology and less trauma to the patient’s body during the surgery. With the development of drugs and anesthesia technology, the upper age limit for elderly people to undergo the surgery is also increasing; children are in a period of rapid growth and development of the skull before the age of three, so experts suggest that young children should undergo cranial bone repair surgery after the age of three. At the same time, the defective area of the skull does not change significantly as the child grows, so parents do not have to worry that the area of the skull repair will need to be adjusted with a second surgery after the child’s body develops. Cranial repair is also less invasive and less damaging, so the recovery period after surgery is relatively short. Surgery is basically a bloodless surgery, intraoperative bleeding is very small, in this case we have a preoperative preparation time, after the operation basically out of the operating room (the patient) is awake, you can talk to him to chat and so on, usually one or two days can get off the ground and leave the bed activities, seven days on the removal of stitches discharged from the hospital, basically after a half-month of rest and recuperation can be resumed to normal study and work, basically unaffected. There are even patients who ask me how often to come for a review, and I tell them that they don’t need to come back to me after six months of review. That is to say, our recovery speed is very fast.