Hi there! I’m new here and my English is not the sharpest, i need some advices and information on cosmetic ll, the different methods used to ll, possible cheapest, fastest, safest (not combined) doctors and methods, and real life experience from veterans here that had the surgery and when will I be back to my form or maybe like normal things like seating walking fast and possible sports activities. But the most important is safe&cheap.
And like what’s the average full healing time , like from the beginning of the process till I get home.
I would like to have tsf ll with dr giotikas from Greece but I understood the frames gonna stay long and make some hard and big scars overall so I’m waiting for ur responses guys!!
I can give you a short summary of few basic things to keep in mind:
- Safe limits when doing LL twice are 3 inches on Femurs and 2 inches on Tibias. It also keeps the natural ratio somewhat in check. If you do only one LL you can push Tibias more than 2 inches without big issues.
- Distraction/lengthening takes about 3 months for Fem or Tib. Femurs are distracted with a rate of 1mm per day, and Tib with 0.75mm per day.
- Consolidation takes twice about twice as long as distraction, after the distraction is over.
- If you want to feel safe walking during the consolidation, you would need a rod that can bear weight. The only cheap method for that is LON. I personally would not want to rely on half-way consolidated bone formation when an external frame is removed ....
You can look normal walking 3-4 months after the distraction, but it may feel not 100% easy or recovered. That feeling of full recovery starts somewhere at the 1 year mark and months beyond. That is when you can start to live completely normal
- You can safe money with a cheap surgery and use some of that to remove the visibility of scars over a long period with little surgeries and laser treatment. The scars will look better and slowly heal, but they need time before the purple color on the scars becomes pale. Additional scar treatment at home is a long process. You need to kneed it regularly, apply ointment, cover it with a sticky band-aid to get the best visual results. Scars also stick to the tissue below. You need to work on scars simply because of this sole reason since it restricts free movement or healing, and can have negative long term effects if you neglect it.