Cranial repair surgery itself is unlikely to cause epilepsy; the occurrence of epilepsy is mainly associated with the cause of the cranial repair surgery, such as cranial trauma, brain tumors, and other diseases.
Cranial bone repair surgery rarely causes epilepsy, and the causes of epilepsy are often cortical developmental disorders, intracranial tumors, craniocerebral trauma, parasitic infections, and cerebrovascular diseases.
If intracranial tumors, cranial trauma, and parasitic infections may require cranial surgery, cranial bone repair surgery may be used, but cranial bone repair surgery does not usually involve the cerebral cortex or brain parenchyma, and therefore does not usually cause epilepsy.
Intracranial tumors may cause epilepsy, and the epilepsy usually improves after surgery; a few patients may continue to have seizures after surgery. Patients with cranial trauma may have no epilepsy before the trauma and may have seizures after the trauma, which are less related to the surgery than to the cranial trauma.
If you have a seizure after cranial repair surgery, follow your doctor’s instructions.