US Vs. Thailand.

[starbright]

I am just curious as to if the surgeons overseas are superior to what the USA and Canada has to offer with SRS/GRS surgeries and other procedures. I never reeally looked into any here in the states because I knew I could not afford it. So I went with a Thai. surgeon simply for money. But I wondered if the any of the surgeons here are as good as say Suporn and Chett over in Thailand. Please leave you feedback and opinions, I am just curious what you all have to say. Thanks

[Flan]

Disclaimer: I'm a premed student so I'm biased towards my idea of surgical perfection

I see the current state of reassignment surgery pretty stagnant as a whole. US and Canadian surgeons are generally good although the tissue inversion techs used haven't really changed that much. Mcginn is a good example of this where she has recommended medical tattooing in place of something new. The UK isn't much to get excited over although to many it's better than nothing because of NHS coverage. Thailand used to be where the newest applied research was at but not much has happened for a couple years.

I see the future going towards tissue engineering but it's not going wide spread now because of cost of entry. All in all said I would probably recommend a US/Canadian surgeon for reliability. Thai surgeons are getting more hit and miss although the usual names (suporn chet, precha) have good history. In the end its an ability to trust a surgeon and what I say won't matter because it's my opinion based on what I want and expect.

[JessicaH]

Someone who had SRS last year with Suporn just told me he charges $17,500 and McGinn advertises $18,000. I fly intercontinental all the time and I can't even imagine doing that after SRS.

[peky]

Disclaimer: I'm a premed student so I'm biased towards my idea of surgical perfection

I see the current state of reassignment surgery pretty stagnant as a whole. US and Canadian surgeons are generally good although the tissue inversion techs used haven't really changed that much. Mcginn is a good example of this where she has recommended medical tattooing in place of something new. The UK isn't much to get excited over although to many it's better than nothing because of NHS coverage. Thailand used to be where the newest applied research was at but not much has happened for a couple years.

I see the future going towards tissue engineering but it's not going wide spread now because of cost of entry. All in all said I would probably recommend a US/Canadian surgeon for reliability. Thai surgeons are getting more hit and miss although the usual names (suporn chet, precha) have good history. In the end its an ability to trust a surgeon and what I say won't matter because it's my opinion based on what I want and expect.

Some Italian and Egyptian teams have already grown in vitro vaginas (from buccal tissue) which was latter on used to successfully create a neo-vagine in cis women suffering from vagina agenesis (lack of formation of vagina during development), this was reported in 2007).

It puzzles me why it has not been used for TS folks. I can see a two stage surgical procedure: first one to construct the labias, antrum, meatus, and clitoris. After proper healing, the second stage would be the creation of the vaginal canal from the invitro material. The results ought to be superior to any thing the Thais or the rest of the world has currently to offer.

A vaginal canal with lubrication and proper dimension...no more dilation!!

[Shantel]

The only consideration I would have beyond cost is that you have little recourse if you return home from overseas surgery and develop a medical problem. One person I know personally suffered a burst bowel upon her return flight home and had to be opened back up, cleaned out and repaired and now has a huge scar that looks like an inverted T that runs from the breast bone to well below her navel. Had it happened in Thailand she could have had it taken care of on the spot, but once back to mainland USA it was another story because the sh** had spread throughout her entire upper body. Just one of those one in a million chances that something would go bad, but something to consider just the same.