I'm curious to know how they then attach that skull to the rest of her body. Is there a skin transplant that somehow lives on top of plastic? Do they just screw it into other bones to hold it into place? But what about the juncture, and how can you ensure nothing gets in at that juncture?
My wife, a surgical technician, hasn't done surgeries like this before but has mentioned how for other procedures (on the face, perhaps) that they fold back the skin and then 'flop it back on'. It is crazy when she talks about stuff she's seen/helped do.
I like to picture surgery to be very similar to working on a car, except the pipes, wires, manifolds, etc are made of organic stuff.
The blood vessels all run within the scalp, which is part of what helps it be loose. Some run up the side and some come out next to the eyes, and nothing has to go through the top half of the skull.
> Bone cement chemically is nothing more than Plexiglas (i.e. polymethyl methacrylate or PMMA).
Wow! I wonder if it's a special formulation - acrylic glass is really bad at chemical resistance (pretty much any organic solvent will damage it) and shatters pretty easily.
