• Effective seizure control. This will definitely improve the quality of life of the person.
• Long term anti epileptic drugs may not be required.
• Complications associated with a seizure episode are avoided.

Disadvantages --

• Mortality -- the ooperative mortality associated with epilepsy surgery is very low i.e. 0.5%.
• Some patients may develop visual defects as a result of the surgery.

Types of surgeries--

Temporal Lobectomy

Frontal Lobectomy

Corpus Callosotomy

Hemispherectomy

Gamma Knife Surgery