Quote from: jerrytheman on August 20, 2023, 08:05:07 AMWell to give a good estimate on success rate. How about you define what "success" is to you. Is a super delayed union a success? Is a non-union where they need to do a bone graft a success? Is ultimately healing but going through multiple pain of infection, and 2 years of rehab a success?
Define it and we can debate what their. "success" rate is.
You reading off this forum isn't a good indicator. LLT is an extremely large organization with thousands of cosmetic LL patients coming all across the world vs Paley who only does very limited cosmetic LL since he mainly deals with children. I am sorry to break it to you but a majority of people that come out of surgery from Turkey doesn't become crippled ( again your 2/10 statement).
Even LASIK ( the most popular and safe elective surgery) with its 95%+ satisfaction rate have people with complications and long term problems. Usually lot of the complaints come from big LASIK chains mostly because they are more recognizable to the public and the sheer amount of surgery they conduct vs a local Ophthalmologist.
Quote from: JJ299 on August 20, 2023, 08:36:17 PMYou reading off this forum isn't a good indicator. LLT is an extremely large organization with thousands of cosmetic LL patients coming all across the world vs Paley who only does very limited cosmetic LL since he mainly deals with children. I am sorry to break it to you but a majority of people that come out of surgery from Turkey doesn't become crippled ( again your 2/10 statement).
Even LASIK ( the most popular and safe elective surgery) with its 95%+ satisfaction rate have people with complications and long term problems. Usually lot of the complaints come from big LASIK chains mostly because they are more recognizable to the public and the sheer amount of surgery they conduct vs a local Ophthalmologist.
Isn't it funny you cant answer 1 single question yet you can yap about everything else. Define "success" and we can talk. There's nothing to debate even if you cant even give me your definition of what "success" mean in LLT. If being crippled for 2 years with multiple infections but ultimately healing is "success" to you, then that's fine. But you need to define it because you dont really know much about limb lengthening
Quote from: jerrytheman on August 20, 2023, 08:50:58 PMIsn't it funny you cant answer 1 single question yet you can yap about everything else. Define "success" and we can talk. There's nothing to debate even if you cant even give me your definition of what "success" mean in LLT. If being crippled for 2 years with multiple infections but ultimately healing is "success" to you, then that's fine. But you need to define it because you dont really know much about limb lengthening
Hard agree, there are people getting LL in Turkey with very obvious complications like knock knees or ballerina feet. But they reached their goal height and they call it a "success". Then you don't hear from them ever again. To me, that is not a success. Nor is it a success if you then have to go to another doctor or surgeon to fix the complications caused by the initial LL surgery.
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I think about 90% at least, even in Turkey where I finished my LL journey. Out of around 20 patients I talked too, almost none of them had big issues. I know it's a small sample size but still.
In Egypt , with dr. Yasser Elbatrawy ( the most irresponsible doctor worldwide for LL ) it is sure that you will never walk normally again.This guy destroyed my tibias . He has also a terrible personality.All his patients had many problems with him.
Failure rate = 95% at least
Quote from: jerrytheman on August 20, 2023, 08:50:58 PMIsn't it funny you cant answer 1 single question yet you can yap about everything else. Define "success" and we can talk. There's nothing to debate even if you cant even give me your definition of what "success" mean in LLT. If being crippled for 2 years with multiple infections but ultimately healing is "success" to you, then that's fine. But you need to define it because you dont really know much about limb lengthening
I was just countering your outlandish fiction of LLT having a 25% success rate and your source is basically reading handful of diaries in this forum even though LLT is probably one of the biggest LL surgery centers currently. If you have to know my definition of success surgery it's essentially a person being able to walk properly after 1+ year and unsurprisingly the majority of people in LLT is able to achieve this.
IMO success rate is close to 100% for "better" methods. It does scale hard with money
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