Do people do LL at Betz center alone?

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On average how many people get operated at Betz institute per month?

Do most of them come alone or with someone for help?

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- Staged LL is recommended by many good surgeons for medical safety. People have died doing bilateral LL.
- Some people don't want to do LL with ratcheting nails. Some even want a surgeon who is exclusively trained in deformity correction. That leaves just Precice and Fitbone which imply wheelchair usage for months.

I agree staged takes so long to complete especially when you have weight bearing nails around, but each to his own. It's certainly not a stupid decision to do bilateral or staged.

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Quote from: RealLostSoul on December 08, 2022, 08:09:08 PMFirst,
Name one surgeon who recommends 1 segment at a time for stature lengthening.
 
Second,
You die from pulmonary embolism: either from fat emboli or a DVT. Fat emboli happens from reaming the bone marrow etc. It‘s the reason why Paley and many others won‘t offer installment of femur and tibia (4 segments) in one surgery but rather a few weeks apart. The risk of fat emboli syndrome increases with each segment more. So yes for 1 segment surgery it‘s lower but  there is NO increased risk with bilateral compared to tibia+femur unilateral. Both are 2 segments

First, Peter Thaller. Even Assayag thinks it's a great idea to do staged.

Second, I was not comparing unilateral tibia + femur here. I was comparing bilateral femur vs staged femur. I would personally do bilateral too for practical reasons but staged is medically safer.