Proportions:Femur or Tibia

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Hi tom
I did the surgery with Stryde in Paley institute.  I don't understand why you felt the atmosphere seemed quite dead.  I was there last summer and didn't really feel like that.  In fact, many current or perspective patients were there and I was somewhat surprised by the number of people for either cll or other treatments.  I also was amazed that Dr. Paley or his team has been doing a wonderful job to treat many children who suffer from all kind of bone growth/alignment problems.

Anyway I am not particularly recommending Dr. Paley.  I am just trying to say that G nail/Dr. Guichet is not a good choice since there is Stryde. 

Good luck!

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Dude you actually made me do an important decision.You are completely right.I have to do the lengthening with the stryde method.I am now trying to cancel my flight,my eurostar ticket and my hotel bookings.I have no idea why I was thinking of doing the surgery with Dr Guichet and his prehistoric method.I do hope everything you said was genuine and I thank you for advising me!

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Hi tom
I am glad that I helped you made a decision.
When it comes to CLL, choices/decisions are to be made as follows.

Femurs vs Tibia

If femurs, only consider the internal nails and DO NOT consider the external for femurs. This means pretty much Stryde nails these days. Do not consider fitbone, G-nail, or Betz's nail, since you can find doctors for Stryde at the similar prices as others nails.

If tibias, decide between internal and external.  This is somewhat hard to decide since there are many factors to consider.  If money is a big factor, it is external.  There are many doctors for external methods.  If time, pain, or scar is more important factor than money, internal is the choice. Again if it comes to the internal, consider only Stryde.  In terms of the safety, it is hard to say which is better between external and internal.  I think it is more depending on who is your doctor.

Those money loss from cancellation is not that much.  Just move on.

Good luck!

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Quote from: tom paul 24 on June 21, 2019, 09:53:47 AMDude you actually made me do an important decision.You are completely right.I have to do the lengthening with the stryde method.I am now trying to cancel my flight,my eurostar ticket and my hotel bookings.I have no idea why I was thinking of doing the surgery with Dr Guichet and his prehistoric method.I do hope everything you said was genuine and I thank you for advising me!



Yeah as ghostfish said the money loss sucks but at least you didn’t lose more valuable things like your recovery etc.

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yea it's true.Recovery and safety is way more important.I have a question though.I want to do the surgery in january or february next year.Considering that I live extremely far from Florida will I be able to do the consultation with Dr Paley and then the surgery after a couple of days?Cuz I cant go for just a consultation since the flight tickets will be extremely expensive.

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Yeah you should only ever do internals with STRYDE nails, they've completely changed the game. I honestly don't know how things can be improved beyond this apart from increasing the speed of consolidation.

From what I've seen all the doctors that offer STRYDE seem to be highly competent and professional.Besides, Guichet's nail is apparently extremely painful during the lengthening procedure.

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Hi ... Tom, Paley is definitely a great choice ...

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Quote from: tom paul 24 on June 21, 2019, 03:25:54 PMyea it's true.Recovery and safety is way more important.I have a question though.I want to do the surgery in january or february next year.Considering that I live extremely far from Florida will I be able to do the consultation with Dr Paley and then the surgery after a couple of days?Cuz I cant go for just a consultation since the flight tickets will be extremely expensive.


Paley is best doctor in world but 99k for stryde ( his consultation is 1250 which doesn’t apply towards surgery and his cost is 97,750usd)

I’ll be doing with mahboubian in 2020 stryde femurs, he is 75k for stryde and offers carecredit financing

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Hey guys.
I have some bad news.My father said he won't cancel the trip to london:((((
He is ignorant and doesnt know anything about this procedure and all the different types of nails.
So if I'm going to london and france in July what doctors can you suggest me to go to?
I dont know anyone who does lengthening with stryde in those 2 countries

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I would say keep trying to cancel but in terms of who is in London I believe Dr. Giotikas splits his time in between London and Greece. Check that out. If all else fails don’t worry too much. People will always say if something went bad but not many will say if something went good cause they don’t wanna put themselves out there and remain private or they just move on. Try to stay positive throughout! Good luck bro!