Quote from: echo7 on March 08, 2018, 06:14:37 PM
IMO it's best to go with a surgeon who has a lot of experience. Go with someone who has done thousands of SRS procedures and has been doing it for at least 10 years. As smart and as capable a newer surgeon may be, there is simply no substitute for experience.
Just because someone has been doing longer doesn't make them a better surgeon. Dr Leis has been doing it longer than Bowers and I would let him touch me at all. I would not rule out anyone that has done more than 100 or more with excellent results. Dr Rachel Bluebond-Langner has done over 300 of them and she is new compared to Bowers, but very innovative using robotics and microsurgery to minimize scarring. She is also using peritoneum ( Internal abdominal tissue ) to make up some of the vaginal wall, a variation of Dr Ting's method. I'm one of her first patients with this adapted method being used. It wasn't planned that way, but most of my scrotum tissue wasn't usable and she decided to use peritoneum tissue for the rest. She had to decide this while I was under on the operating table. I'm very happy with my results from her and I believe I her fresh innovative decision making was the better option for me and I knew there was a possibility for me not being the typical case since I'm intersex.
The best way to make this decision is by talking to former patients and also look at there like
Healthgrades and
RateMDs to see what patients have said. There are other factors like insurance, wait times, and even location that be major factors.
For me, I wanted a surgeon that not only was well experienced in GCS, but also in plastic surgery in general.
