Quote from: athenian1984 on August 17, 2023, 02:27:15 AMAccording to google, the success rate for this surgery is 4 out of 10.Overall, limb lengthening surgeries have a high success rate (about 95%). Scarring is usually minimal since only small incisions are required in most procedures. Although minor problems may occur with pins and stiffening in the joints, serious complications from limb lengthening surgery are rare.
How accurate is this?
Quote from: jerrytheman on August 17, 2023, 08:26:26 AMYour question isn't specific enough. It depends on many factors, the 2 most important one being 1) Which doctor 2) What method
If you do External LON in Turkey, you're probably looking at a 25% success rate. Femur with Paley, probably 99%.
Also what is "success" to you? Being able to recover in the optimal average time? Or being able to recover at all. Delayed union is the most common complication. But it really just means your recovery period will be a couple months longer.
Quote from: Legs890 on August 17, 2023, 11:55:24 AMSaying the turkish clinics have a 25% is ridiculous. I don't doubt there's a higher percentage of complications there but you're only going to hear about bad results on this forum, if they actually crippled 75% of patients they'd have been shut down long ago.
The fact is, you'll probably be fine in Turkey, but it's higher risk than other places. Not even that much cheaper these days either.
Quote from: jerrytheman on August 18, 2023, 03:50:08 AMIt's not regulated lol. A lot of victims have been trying to shut them down. If it were any other country in the world, you're right, they'd in fact be shut down a long time ago. 25% is a random number, but not out of the realm of possibility.
Quote from: JJ299 on August 20, 2023, 06:27:19 AMAlright calm down. I'll agree on the fact that Turkey isn't comparable to other locations like EU/NA/Korea but thinking the success rate over there is at the realm of 20s and even 30s is ridiculous. Hundreds or even 1000+ of people with the ability to spend 40k+ do it at LLT every year and if the rate is that horrendous ( a number that rivals even some cancer survival rate ) then the place would definitely be investigated even in a less regulated place like Turkey - in fact if the success rate was that low they probably would be the nations biggest treatment centers in Turkey lol
Quote from: athenian1984 on August 17, 2023, 02:27:15 AMAccording to google, the success rate for this surgery is 4 out of 10.
How accurate is this?
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