Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110519:05:28:00
And as you might guess, the skin is closed over this area, but there's a concavity. >> so the skin grows back over it? or they graft skin on? >> there's an incision made and after the operation is performed, the skin is brought back together. >> they fold the skin -- >> and just, you know, and put together with sutures. but you're absolutely right, anderson, to your point, the only thing protecting the underlying brain now is that layer of skin. the bone is gone. so if a person were to fall or something were to injure this area of the head, that would be a problem. a lot of times people will w...