I didn't mean anything was wrong, your walking looks good and everything.
It's just that your callus is a bit blurred/uneven and I can see you've put a lot of force on your legs. It doesn't matter I think, your callus will heal properly I guess.
Apo's callus looked much thicker. I guess it doesn't disturb the muscles being in that way.
Go to The Alps, there is snow right now 
Quote from: Sweden on December 28, 2013, 11:49:56 PM
It's just that your callus is a bit blurred/uneven and I can see you've put a lot of force on your legs.
How can you see that a lot of force has been put on legs by looking at x-rays??
Quote from: OldieButGoldie on December 28, 2013, 09:16:36 PMSorry handy, but what you are writing is absolute bull and I kindly ask you to stop spreading this nonsense and confusing people.
this conspiracy thing -this time directed towards all the "bad" vets- really drives me crazy...
And one last time: nails can bend during lengthening, but not the bone!
This is something that always concerns me about Dr. Betz, and that is how little information his patients actually know about limb lengthening. During internal femur lengthening the bone can ABSOLUTELY bend. This can be caused by weight bearing too early and often which is very common among patients of Dr. Betz, or by the muscles surrounding the femur bone becoming too tight.
This is something Dr. Paley told me months ago when I met with him. The muscles around the femur bone are incredibly strong and can bend the bone during lengthening. If the muscles become too tight or if weight bearing is done too early and often they will force a deformity of the femur bone.
This is just the truth OBG. Just like like how Sysop/Apo uses people as guinea pigs with Dr. Sarin and Dr. Sringari and has Crazy+6 promote these butchers. Tall is nothing but a salesman for Dr. Mahboubian. Those are the three veterans who posted in your diary after you posted your x-rays and that's who i'm talking about when I say corrupt veterans.
Quote from: handy on December 29, 2013, 03:30:57 PMThis is something Dr. Paley told me months ago when I met with him. The muscles around the femur bone are incredibly strong and can bend the bone during lengthening. If the muscles become too tight or if weight bearing is done too early and often they will force a deformity of the femur bone.
The bend would happen at the osteotomy site not 8 inches below it.
Hi Oldie,
you can easily check the bending by holding a ruler to the x-ray of the nail.
As already mentioned the bending is not big, so you won't need the titanium
rip-off. You are quite lucky to have such a quick regeneration and didn't lengthen
too much. Also you were relatively lightweight and had the 13mm nail fitting naturally.
These factors in your favor, you still had the broken screw complication which fortunately
Didn't have a big impact either. Wishing you all the best.
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Xrays look completly normal for me!
I'm not defending anyone here BUT Betz patients are also the ones who lengthen the most in the diaries I have read " on average"
My guess is that those betz patients who lengthen below 6cm have significantly lower complication rates (mostly mechanical failures).
The reason for this "if it is the case" is obvious right.
Its unfair to compare betz with doctors who don't let their patients lengthen significant amounts.
The same goes for those Drs in asia who apparently have a limit on what they will allow you to lengthen.
We all know that risks increase after 5-6cm. we also know that LLing beyond 8cm increases ur risks exponentially.
So lets compare apples with apples. a good example is OBG. he lengthened below 6cm and he has come out alright. if he had been in a wheel chair and been extra cautious he would not even have had bent screws.
I agree that betz can be too optimistic and maybe be too much of a sales men by allowing patients to weight bear so early like he did with OBG.
other than this I think Betz is a great doctor for those of us who need to lengthen significant amounts. how hard is it to b extra cautious and avoid the expensive replacement titanium nails.
the thing that I don't understand is why the replacement nails r so expensive!!!... that's the bit that makes it seem like they do it to suck what ever is left of ur money h ah ah ah ahaaah aaa
why cant he use the same rod that is used in LON ( atleast for patients who are not heavy)
Hi Adriano,
The titanium rods cost around 200 US$ per piece. The rest is profit minus cost for the hospital which cannot be too expensive since rod removal surgery is much cheaper. In defending Betz you still haven't understood the main problems with him:
-His nails are always bending and breaking
-He is lying to his patients about it
-He has a commercial interest in doing more surgeries with his patients
-He is sloppy and not well organized
-He is tinkering with his patients, always willing to experiment with his patients
-He never refuses a patient, never looking at bone density or blood values or bone structure before surgery
-He has an extremely high % of complications due to all of this.
-He after surgery treatment sucks big time( medication, physiotherapy, recommends lots of walking)
-He has no preparation whatsoever. His consultation is just about selling. No serious examination.
If you don't believe me go ask some people in Neunkirchen Hospital. They see all his cases. Betz has an extremely bad reputation there.
Mime, it'd really put your claims in perspective and give them more validity if you could tell us what your relation to Betz and LL in general is and where you have gotten this information and/or impression. Are you a former patient? Are you a friend or relative of a former patient? Are you a health care professional who's worked with or around Betz or his patients? While I don't exactly doubt your claims because honestly I don't know what to believe anymore, how can we know what you're saying is correct? And if it is, shouldn't it all be reported to some kind of German medical oversight authority who could take action and straighten things out? I'm sure Betz has some kind of doctor's license that he doesn't want to lose.
Dr. Betz is what he his. Do you want LL? He'll do it. After getting rejected in Serbia for BS reasons and then getting some no questions asked LL in Beijing, I love that about a doctor. It's the patient's choice whether to do LL and how much to lengthen. If you've got money and want 1st world medical treatment, but "aren't a good candidate" according to the more fussy doctors, Betz is there to provide LL for you. Getting turned down for LL was one of the worst experiences of my life.
The pros and cons have been stated in this thread, so people can go in with their eyes open and make their own decision about him.
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