If the nail was defective...? Then the nail manufacturer should be responsible for some of the costs
This is totally unacceptable... for a private patient to pay additional costs ... when the manufacturer failed on there product
I have a mild Charcot Marie Tooth disease (CMT1A) which gives me imbalance that's why i am very sensitive and a small LLD make imbalance for me. Maybe a patient with no CMT will not notice a 9 mm difference (note: According to a Dr Bertz that i visited in Germany lately he picked up 14 mm difference and not just 9 as Dr Rozbruch picked up before surgery. i ll explain that below).
I am walking now 90% normally but with 8 mm insole which stress the toes a lot in shoes and cannot be inserted in formal shoes. without inserting an insole i have weak balance and a small limp can easily noticed and for sure i can not run comfortably at all and if i do i ll got injured. I still cant run at the moment anyway.
Bone is not fully healed after 10 months because nail is dropping down and not stable.
I visited Dr. Betz after what happened with me and he made an xray and said u have
14 mm difference and not just 9 and it is as follow: 9 mm in femur and 2 mm in tibia and 3 mm due to the surgery that i have done in 2005 in ankle.
He said using an extremely expensive nail for this small amount is not a good choice at all. Solid nail like trauma nail was much better for making the femurs equal and lengthen just 9 mm in the operation room and u can full weight bear after the surgery and u ll not feel the rest of difference which is 5 mm as it will be a very small difference. He noted that keep putting insole is easier for me for sure unless i have a big back pain when running and want to get rid of the insole.
Now according to Dr Betz, the solution after non union or better to say after very long time of healing (because still healing in positive way) is to take out the defected nail and insert a solid trauma nail and cut the bone again and lengthen 9 mm in one shot in femur in the operation room and walking full weight bearing from day 1 after the surgery. He said ur bone will heal fast with solid nail and the problem is in the inserted nail and not in my callus formation. a lot of callus formation is there but most of them r still outside the gap due to nail instability or other issues with it.
I asked Dr Rozbruch after he told me come for re evaluation about a discount for correction or offering me a free nail because it is obvious from his xray after 10 months that something went wrong and the nail dropped and his measurments was not correct as he picked up 1 mm in femur before surgery and 9 mm after correction !! but he said u r an international patient and we can not do anything for u and u have to pay another 85000$ to correct with solid nail or stryde nail. Imagine how did I left his office after this irresponsibility.
add to that i want to mention another strange payment. i always pay 450$ for the xray and in the last visit they took from me 1200$ for the exactly same xray !! I paid directly and after that i asked the Dr why the amount is so high ? he started saying i can not control everything and u better ask HSS and he got mad!
I followed the internet reviews and some diaries here to choose Dr Rozbruch and I picked up the wrong choice.
I am planning to do the correction with Dr. Betz as the whole correction is approx for 20 000 euro and Dr Betz is very friendly and he went with me for the xray and he is not snob with his team like Rozbruch.
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