Part of her skull will need to be reconstructed either by reinserting bone that was removed or with a titanium plate.

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Doctors in Birmingham have chosen to use a metal plate to repair her skull instead of that bone, which they say may have shrunk.

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They removed some of the loose bone fragments from the eye socket and then placed a titanium mesh plate to help reconstruct the orbital rim and floor.

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