Historical overview of cranial bone implants: own material or artificial prostheses - short review

Siedlecki Zygmunt, Shaik Fasi A., Nowak Karol, Grzyb Sebastian, Śniegocki Maciej. Historical overview of cranial bone implants: own material or artificial prostheses - short review. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2021;11(02):36-40. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/JEHS.2021.11.02.004

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Received: 28.01.2021. Revised: 05.02.2021. Accepted: 10.02.2021.

Historical overview of cranial bone implants: own material or artificial prostheses - short review

Zygmunt Siedlecki¹, Fasi A. Shaik², Karol Nowak¹, Sebastian Grzyb³, Maciej Śniegocki¹

1. Department of Neurosurgery, Neurotraumatology and Pediatric Neurosurgery, The Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, The Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
2. Department of Biotechnology, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. Present: Jain University, India
3. Department of Clinical Pharmacology, The Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, The Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń

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Dr. med. Zygmunt Siedlecki Department of Neurosurgery, Neurotraumatology and Pediatric Neurosurgery, the Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz,

ul. Skłodowskiej-Curie 9

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tel.: + 48 606 302680

e-mail: siedlecki@cm.umk.pl

Abstract

We present a brief report on the different types of skull bone prostheses used in cranioplasty. Skull defects, most often resulting from severe head injuries, have been known since the times of Ancient Egypt. Ethnographic reports indicate that at that time the skull defects were restored with golden plates. In the following centuries of medical development, especially in modern centuries, cranioplasty has been performed more widely. Cranioplasty began to be performed also in defects after craniectomy. Such craniectomies have been performed for treatment brain hemorrhages, strokes, tumors with severe edema. A common dilemma is whether artificial prostheses are better or own bone material. We present a brief historical overview and the actual state based on the procedures performed in our neurosurgical department in Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz.

Key words: cranioplasty, bone defect, implants, history