Some questions about GCS techniques

[Claire_Sydney]

I can make a fairly solid logical argument that any time spent under anesthesia doing things that could be accomplished beforehand is a bad idea. Time under GA is extremely hard on the body. This was my choice, however as you say other choices are certainly valid.

I would think that argument only stands up when considering single stage surgeries.

A counter argument might be that there is a much better chance of removing all hairs when the skin has been resected, and a surgical team spends a week scrapping and preparing the skin graft in a lab during a two stage surgical approach. This isn't time spent under GA.

Personally, I think the risk of hair growth remains no matter which approach is followed. I wouldn't consider electro to be a flawless approach to removing all hairs either.




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[SadieBlake]

Claire, sure and there is not a one size fits all solution.

Now as it happens, I've only heard of vaginal hair growth post-op in women who didn't do electrolysis but you could be right, our data is imperfect at best.

Too often discussion of technique come down to a sense of advocating, I think I said above, what we're looking at are really good choices among amazingly skilled surgeons. At least in the US every surgeon I know of doing these procedures is already a top notch practitioner.

[Claire_Sydney]

Claire, sure and there is not a one size fits all solution.

Too often discussion of technique come down to a sense of advocating.

Yes, I agree with you. It makes it tough for anyone trying to make a fully informed decision.



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[AnonyMs]

Too often discussion of technique come down to a sense of advocating, I think I said above, what we're looking at are really good choices among amazingly skilled surgeons. At least in the US every surgeon I know of doing these procedures is already a top notch practitioner.

That's why photo's are so valuable.

[Claire_Sydney]

That's why photo's are so valuable.

I don't think that photos alone (even if they are fairly balanced and not photoshopped) are a reliable indicator of what you're likely to end up with.

A surgeon usually provides their best photos, but may still have an incredibly high rate of necrosis/debridement, aesthetic complications, or assymetry.

Worse, their usual outcomes from an uncomplicating surgery might still look nothing like the photos.

Just my ten cents worth..


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[AnonyMs]

I prefer photos that people post on internet independently. There's quite a few around.

[Deniz]

A counter argument might be that there is a much better chance of removing all hairs when the skin has been resected, and a surgical team spends a week scrapping and preparing the skin graft in a lab during a two stage surgical approach. This isn't time spent under GA.

Which surgeons do this? As far as I know, only one surgeon in Thailand (cannot remember his name now)

[Claire_Sydney]

Two stage surgeries are done by Dr Sanguan Kunaporn, Dr Meltzer in the USA, and (I think) one surgeon in Europe.