After almost dying from a brain injury sustained in a car accident during spring break, a McKinney adolescent is grateful to be able to resume his regular life.
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Trevor Dutton is a recent McKinney North High School graduate who nearly died in a car crash on the way home from Seaside, Florida during spring break.
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On Wednesday, he met the people who made his skull implant and told them thank you.
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The new technology has allowed him to return to a normal life.
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Trevor Dutton is a recent McKinney North High School graduate who nearly died in a car crash on the way home from Seaside, Florida during spring break.
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On Wednesday, he met the people who made his skull implant and told them thank you.
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The new technology has allowed him to return to a normal life.
McKINNEY, Texas:After almost dying from a brain injury sustained in a car accident during spring break, a McKinney adolescent is grateful to be able to resume his regular life.
When Trevor Dutton crashed, he was returning home after a spring break trip to Seaside, Florida, with his five best friends and their mothers. He was resting against the car window, sleepy.
“A man came over the hill, smashed into the side of the car I was in,” stated the man.
According to Dr. Shaad Bidwala, a neurosurgeon at Baylor Scott and White in Dallas, “Neurosurgeons in Alabama saved his life by removing a portion of his skull, allowing the brain to swell and then heal.”
Dutton had to take a 14-hour ambulance travel home to North Texas after spending weeks in the hospital in Alabama.
The procedure has left his brain looking fantastic. A coma had gripped him. to give Alabama surgeons credit for saving his life. According to Dr. Bidwala, he does not have any neurological deficiencies.
Dutton’s skull was gone, and he had to wear a helmet to protect his brain for two months.
“When I looked in the mirror, it looked like a there was a crater in my head,” claimed the man.
The excised bone fragment was preserved by the doctors. However, Dutton required a replacement because a skull cannot be sanitized at such heat.
“They were able to reconstruct a piece of bone that would fit exactly on Trevor s defect,” said Dr. Bidwala.
The replacement is composed of a light biomedical plastic called PEEK, according to Nancy Hiarston, the creator and president of MedCAD.
Dutton met with Hairston on Wednesday to express gratitude.
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“We do hundreds of cases a year. First time a patient has said we want to thank you personally,” she said. I ve thought about how cool it would be to have a patient come back and say thank you so much.”
Dutton’s severe injuries have now completely healed. He s also thankful to be alive.
“Two to three weeks ago, I got baptized at my church,” said the man. “I know God saved my life for me to save other people s lives.
He s attending Collin College with plans to go to Texas State University in the fall to study business.
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FOX 4’s Lori Brown interviewed Trevor Dutton and his doctors to gather details for this story.
FOX 4’s Lori Brown interviewed Trevor Dutton and his doctors to gather details for this story.
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