Q: Dr. Eppley, I would like to ask some questions about skull implants:
• What material would be used for the implant?
• How lasting is in the long term?
• What is the price of surgery?
• And how long would the recovery take? I need to plan my return home.
A: In response to the increasing questions of your skull:
1) Personalized skull implants are made of solid silicone.
2) This is a material that is not biodegradable and that the lung will last the life of a patient.
3) The recovery of the skull implant is a large extent of the swelling of the head and sometimes the face of 10 to 14 days to resolve to a large extent. One does not expect until the swelling has resolved to go home. Most patients go home in 2 to 3 days after surgery, a female with hair can camouflage much of swelling. Nor are there sutures that are eliminated, since they are all dissolved.
Dr. Barry Eppley
World renowned plastic surgeon
