Grant: Project Grant

The skull is vitally important to protect the brain. it does not behave like bones in the legs and arms because of the way it forms and its mainly protective function. Large holes in the skull are not easy to repair. If other pieces of bone are used they tend to resorb. Plastic and metal plates are a crude substitute and leave patients vulnerable to further injury and infection. The research team of scientists and surgeons have made a potential breakthrough. In several models of significant skull injury, they have been able to repair the bone completely and rapidly, even to the point that they can regenerate half a missing skull. This is not achievable by any other means and represents an exciting new was to regenerate the skull and other skeletal bones.