Why would anyone choose the Guichet nail over Stryde?

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Precice- STRYDE nail is FDA approved and it can also move in reverse direction.

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When a doctor gets money from a manufacturer for prescribing his product to his patients that's corruption. The same applies when the doctor is owner of the manufacturing company.
Therefore the business models of Guichet and Betz are corrupt and illegal.
Their technology is obsolete.
There is no supervision of medical products in Europe. The manufacturers supervise themselves.
Both Betz and Guichet are known to abandon their patients in case of serious complications. Both have lots of lawsuits from ex-patients.

Unfortunately still many people fall for their marketing which consists in part of outright lying. And lucky patients who had good results are helping them.

It's what happens with the bad cases that characterizes a doctor, not the good ones.

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- No one will implant a Guichet nail or a Betzbone after the 2 respective doctors stop their careers.
- Even the factories who manufacture these nails would be shut down (fully or in part) and the remaining inventory of nails be disposed, unused, not fulfilling the goal of lengthening any patient's limbs.
- It's possible that Guichet and Betz have documented some shortcomings of their nails but they don't have the team, money or interest to do anything about it and develop a new version with the defects fixed.

Things to think about.

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Quote from: hanshi on August 29, 2020, 04:59:14 AMThere is no supervision of medical products in Europe. The manufacturers supervise themselves.

First, you mean medical devices. Second, of course there is supervision.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3326593/

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As you said, why would anyone choose Guichet at all, I don't know.

Quote from: jem_semarc on May 16, 2020, 10:33:58 AMAlso, Dr. Guichet has had a few cases of making patients crippled and unfortunately deaths as well.

I can only find one case though
http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=64405.0

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Quote from: NotSoBigBadBruin on August 30, 2020, 10:09:14 PMFirst, you mean medical devices. Second, of course there is supervision.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3326593/

Yes, I meant medical devices and thanks for the link. I was well aware of that. If you read carefully you will find that the so-called Notified bodies are private companies who are being paid by the manufacturer to help them doing the assessment of conformity. The notified bodies themselves have no liability whatsoever, only the manufacturer is responsible that his product is conform with the EU regulations. And they don't give out any information.
So what happens if you are harmed by a medical device in Europe? Neither the manufacturer nor the Notified bodies give out any information about the documentation of the conformity and the burden of proof is on you the patient.
Therefore there is no supervision. It's a scam which looks nice on paper since most people are not aware of the problem.