How long after head surgery can I wash my hair?

Head surgery is actually very serious for everyone. Some complications will still occur after the operation. The most common ones are a series of symptoms such as headache and dizziness. If these symptoms occur, you can only rest in bed, and it is best not to wash your hair in the first one or two weeks, otherwise it will cause bacterial infection, leading to more serious sequelae.

Patients often have a heavy mental burden such as a sense of insecurity, which may cause syndromes such as headaches, dizziness, and fear of vibration. The longer the skull defect lasts, the higher the incidence of skull defect syndrome and secondary brain damage. In order to restore the airtightness of the cranial cavity, maintain the stability of physiological intracranial pressure, and alleviate skull defect syndrome. Cranioplasty should be performed on skull defects with a diameter of more than 3 cm, without muscle coverage, and without contraindications. It is generally believed that repair is best done 3 to 6 months after craniotomy; children can undergo shaping surgery after 3 to 5 years of age.

The patients were observed for wound healing, plastic surgery effects, and complications in the short term after surgery, and the efficacy was finally evaluated according to the following criteria during the follow-up 3 months later. ① Excellent: The titanium alloy mesh is reliably fixed, has a beautiful appearance, and no complications occur after surgery; ② Good: The titanium alloy mesh is reliably fixed, and postoperative complications improve after symptomatic treatment; ③ Poor: The titanium alloy mesh slips and shifts, or the titanium alloy mesh is removed due to other surgical complications.

Data copying precautions

Three-dimensional CT scans should be performed with 1-2 mm scans as much as possible to obtain high-precision data and make the sculpture more accurate. Copying data requires copying the original DICOM data in the CT room to save data processing time. Try not to copy image data between workstations, as this will make the processing more complicated and less accurate. This causes time delays or the shaping cannot be used.

Precautions for children's skull repair

1. Try to follow the doctor's advice and have a secondary sculpture because the child's skull is in the development stage and the skull will continue to grow and change. Since titanium mesh is made of metal and will not grow, it will cause skull asymmetry, affecting appearance and affecting brain development.

2. Try to use three-dimensional titanium mesh because it is softer and has a certain degree of expansion. However, be careful to prevent children from doing too strenuous exercise.