Here's a video of an FtM who had a consult (for DI, hysto, meta) with Dr. Kratz:
There's footage of the actual consult. It's not super detailed, but it gives some idea of what is done. I agree, photos are a big deal when deciding on a surgeon. Whenever he is in Iceland again, why not see if you can get a consult? Perhaps he has more photos of metas that you can look at. Of course, meta results are hugely dependent on one's own growth. As for the immediately post-op meta photo that Flan posted, I think it looks rather good. The guy had good growth to begin with, but the penis looks fully freed-up from surrounding tissue and it's joined nicely to the scrotum. The incision lines and sutures look neat and clean, not at all like a "hack job". The scrotum looks bifid (two sac), but that is not unusual. I know that Dr. Miroslav Djordjevic out of Belgrade, Serbia usually creates a two sac scrotum initially (apparently it is better for implant survival) and can later fuse the scrotum into one sac.
A big question I would want to ask would be his experience with urethral lengthening. I found this:
http://www.computerconsultingservices.net/trans-medicine/images/3.htm Scroll all the way to the bottom; apparently he is working with tissue engineering for urethral lengthening.
Here's his CV:
http://www.plastikakademin.se/mop-kratz.pdf Some of the research sounds very promising, but as Flan said--great in theory, but how is he in practice?
Another thought: since he is primarily practicing in Sweden and "medical tourism" (such as when people travel to Thailand or Serbia for SRS) to use a surgeon based out of Sweden's national healthcare system is unlikely, perhaps that is why the usual English-language photo repositories (TransBucket and Yahoo Groups) don't have photos of his work. There was a thread in the FtM Metoidioplasty Yahoo group expressing interest in his innovative tissue engineering techniques, but it sounded like nobody there was from Sweden and hence didn't have access to using Dr. Kratz as a surgeon. Perhaps there are Swedish-language trans sites that may be more helpful?
Even if you don't feel a need for bottom surgery now (or at its current technological level), it must be nice to know that, should you want it in the future, it will be covered. I just paid out-of-pocket for metoidioplasty with Dr. Miro. Worth it, but a lot of money. For what it's worth, I think the photo Flan posted looks very much like Miro's immediately post-op results, but I guess the comparison only has meaning if you like the aesthetics of Miro's meta results in the first place.
