“Can I drive a car?”

If you are in Australia, you can drive only after 6 months, IF you have not had any seizures or blackouts as a result of the injury and IF your eyesight is normal (i.e. if you don't have any bits of your vision missing. It may seem odd, but you cannot tell this yourself - you MUST have an eye review to confirm this).

Depends on the size of the bone defect. If over 5 square centimeters you should wear a protective helmet.

Thanks for your question. The driving question is tricky due to missing skull and also the underlying reason for missing skull. It also depends upon history of seizures and injury. Best to get checked in person before being ok with any of that activity.

I presume that this was due to a serious head injury. The main risk of having a post-traumatic seizure is in the first 3 months post-injury and if you never had a seizure post-injury and don't have any serious neurological disabilities, I see no objections to driving. If you do have a large craniectomy defect, you probably should wear a helmet.

If you have a normal mental status and capacity, good balance and coordination, along with good physical strength throughout, having a skull defect should not prohibit you from Driving. However, you should be wearing a helmet in the car (you should Be wearing a helmet whenever you are out of bed). In addition, if you feel like you are in a condition to drive, you should Be talking to your neurosurgeon about repairing the skull defect (cranioplasty) at this point, especially if the area under the defect is already sunken. Hope this is helpful information.