Is titanium mesh sturdy for skull repair? Repairing the skull with titanium mesh is one of the more common materials used in clinical practice. However, there are still many people who want to know about the hardness of titanium as a material used for skull repair. In the skull repair hardness is really a selection of material good or bad a judgment standard, then titanium mesh strong enough? Titanium mesh is the most widely used cranial bone repair material in China, and titanium is also the material with higher hardness and lighter quality among metals. Compared with other technologies, titanium is very suitable for cranial bone repair materials, and titanium mesh can be better restored to the shape of the skull through computerized shaping. Because titanium mesh is a relatively thin layer of metal mesh plate, the thickness of only about 1mm, so the hardness of titanium mesh is not enough, especially for large areas of cranial titanium mesh, and again subjected to external forces are prone to deformation, resulting in titanium mesh indentation, and in serious cases need to be removed from the titanium mesh, and then operated on again. Clinically, we have also seen such patients, who have already had a skull repair, but after the trauma, the titanium mesh is sunken in, even with bleeding, and need to be operated again. Therefore, after the skull titanium mesh repair operation, we should pay attention to protect the surgical site to avoid re-injury. It can be seen that although titanium mesh is a good repair material, but there are still some defects. We now recommend a newer type of repair material called peek, which is also called polyetheretherketone repair material. Its structure is closer to human tissue than titanium mesh, and it is also a bit stronger. In addition to this, PEEK also offers the benefits of other cranial repair materials. For example, polyetheretherketone is a polymer material comparable to the body’s own cranial bone. It is much more biocompatible. It is strong but very elastic and resilient, more resistant to blows and better protected. Unlike titanium mesh surgery, cranial repair surgery with polyetheretherketone is an embedded procedure and much more comfortable. Moreover, compared with titanium mesh materials polyether ether ketone materials basically do not conduct heat and have strong thermal insulation properties. It avoids the sensitivity to hot and cold reactions caused by cranial repair surgery with titanium mesh. There is also no postoperative infection or rejection. Radiation can be transmitted without forming artifacts. A more important point is that polyether ether ketone is a material that can be three-dimensionally plasticized and can be customized for three-dimensional reconstruction according to the different needs of patients. According to the patient’s brain CT data for the design, the use of 3D printing technology to produce a perfect match with the bone window of the skull after the repair of the skull and their own skull is basically no difference. However, there are not many hospitals that do cranial bone repair with peek at present. It is also a high demand on the technology and professionalism of the doctors who are engaged in doing peek skull repair in China. Therefore, if you need this treatment, it is recommended to choose a more authoritative hospital.