It is the common wish of parents that their children grow up healthily, but accidents are unpredictable and some children have skull defects due to accidents. It is important to know that the skull is the outer protective shell of the brain tissue, and once the skull defect occurs, it is very detrimental to health. Especially in children who are still growing and developing, the damage that can be caused by skull defects cannot be underestimated. For example, if the child’s appearance is damaged, the child will have a serious inferiority complex and will be reluctant to deal with others, which will lead to depression in the long run. In addition, cranial defects can disrupt the balance and pressure of the intracranial tissues, which will have a great impact on the normal development of the child’s brain, and there is a risk of inducing pediatric epilepsy. As parents, we must pay high attention to this and take our children for skull repair surgery in time. How to repair the left occipital skull defect in children? From the medical point of view, the best age for skull repair in children is after 3 years old, mainly because the risk of skull repair surgery is positively correlated with the growth rate of the skull during different periods of growth and development. Generally, 0-3 years old is the rapid growth period of skull bone, after 3 years old, the growth rate of skull bone is relatively slow, and the skull bone is growing along the bone suture, the size of the bone window usually does not change, so the risk of surgery after 3 years old will be less. Of course, parents do not have to worry too much, cranial repair surgery has been developed over a long period of time and is now a very mature neurosurgery, as long as you go to a regular hospital and let experienced specialists perform the surgery, there is no big problem.