I'm really liking suporn, but my number one priority is not losing sensation. I've heard lots of people talk about it being numb all over except for an "island" of sensation around the clit. Others have said they were able to feel everything from day one. Some say the nerves reconnect, but I am not convinced of that. I think its just getting used to loss of sensation. Which surgeon is the best to have full sensation from day one? Bowers? Mcginn?

I'm not sure this is something there's any solid data on, unfortunately.

So I can only say that Brassard advertises that he tries to spare the nerves as much as possible, and at least in my case it was true - I was fully sensate from the moment I woke up.

However, I can also attest that nerves DO reconnect. Because I still felt those little electric jabs when some did (some nerves do unavoidably have to be cut), even though I though I already felt like I had full sensation and didn't notice an actual difference afterward.

Lets get it straight that the first sensation you will have on Day 1, is PAIN, much PAIN and it will be like that for a long time.  Now if you want to go to day 120 to 400, you have an excellent chance of anyone of them being excellent!!  My first sensations after surgery were touch and pressure and they did not always tell me I was touching where I felt the sensation coming from.  This will be true from any of the greatest of the great surgeons, since the human body hates being cut up and re-arranged.  Suporn is a bit more intricate and each stitch he uses complicates the sensation for a while.  Surprise though, any of the surgeons work is going to be several months to heal.  Bowers does have the shortest time lapse between surgery and when you can have penetrative sex, but it will not create the same sensation then that it does at a year. If you are talking variations in time. none are any better or worse since your physiology may have surprises for both of you not all nerve bundles are in exactly the same place on each patient, and there is no way to know which ones are being chopped up for YOU. 

Rumer girl here.

I never had any loss of sensation, and the pain was minor and manageable.

Yeah, I wouldn't say the pain was unmanageable, either. It was moderately unpleasant the first day, but well controlled with medication. Honestly, it was nothing compared to the time I sprained my ankle so badly I almost broke it.

I'm 12 months post-op and went to Brassard. I have some loss of sensation on the right side, including the right labia minora. The vaginal cavity has no sensation whatsoever. I'm not sure this is supposed to have sensation. However, I'm pretty satisfied with the outcome. There are no issues obtaining orgasms and are just as easy to have as they were pre-op.

Hi.
I'm 10 wks post-op with Chett and would like to start by saying that I went through no pain worth mentioning following my surgery, from day 1 through to now. I stopped all pain-killers the day after I was discharged from the clinic (4 days post-op) and never took anything after that.
In terms of sensation, the area that is supposed to be sensate was hyper-sensitive at the beginning and is now just pleasantly so when stimulated. There is no numbness that I am aware of anywhere.
That, however, is just my own experience and I doubt very much that you will be able to find any statistical data indicating that one surgeon is better than another to avoid numbness/loss of sensation.