B did my GRS in March, 2009. I had no down south electro and have no "stray hair" problems. Depth was satisfactory. On the other hand things still aren't "normal" down there. But what really is normal for this procedure? And I think that's where most of the expectation problems lie.
You only have this surgery once. Many go back for a revision, but the surgery that takes healthy tissue and forms it into something completely different can only be done once. So you can't compare for yourself which surgeon does the better job.
When we ask others in our community their opinion of how their GRS went, we have to remember that opinion is based on their expectations. Anyone expecting a fully functional vagina that is also fully sensate is setting themselves up for disappointment. Nerves are cut, tissue is discarded, things are rerouted and your body immediately goes to work trying to repair the damage and close up the wound, and that means the vaginal cavity.
Being happy with your new equipment requires some work. It's like a relationship, if you expect the other person to do all the work, the relationship will go bad. You can weigh the positive vs. the negative and work to "accentuate the positive" and you'll probably be happy. But it's still work. Feelings, arousals, sensations down there will never be the same. Nature does a better job making things work than humans. And nerves can take forever to heal fully.
I'm not completely happy but I haven't worked on "our" relationship. Maybe if I was straight and in a relationship with a guy, that other relationship would have been more important. I suppose being younger would have helped too. I really wanted to get rid of something more than than I wanted to gain something and that, I'm sure, had an impact on my results.
Yes, Brassard has a lot of surgeries under his belt. I'm pretty sure he was the first to do a single stage procedure. But he's often lightening fast, almost twice as fast as other surgeons. You can't do as good a job when you're racing through it. Maybe he's bored. Maybe that's just his style. But I do know talking to him about it won't change anything.
We had a discussion prior to my surgery and I really thought it would have mattered. It didn't. And after the surgery, when I saw a suture job that made me wonder if it was done by a hack, I expressed my concerns to the nurse and said I wanted to talk to Brassard. That didn't matter either. He passed off that too. He's the surgeon. He knows better than you. That's the impression I got when I walked away from the whole experience.
Take from this what you will. I can't really judge him against anyone else because he's the only surgeon I have any experience with. Maybe no matter who I went to, the results would have been the same. Maybe some are better and some are worse. I will never know. And that's what we all have to accept. We only get one shot at this and as long as we do our homework, we can hope for the best but have to accept less if that's how things work out.
