Diane/Re: How many orthognathic surgeries should an OS be doing a year?

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Hi Diane,

Just wanted to let you know that my OS only performs about 1

Orthognathic surgery a month if even that. He averages about 8 to 12

a year. So it is not unusual for an OS to perform that low a

number. One of the reasons he said he performs so few is that he

stated he prefers to focus on one patient at a time and get them

through recovery before starting on another Orthognathic patient. He

said the recovery from this surgery is quite a bit slower than other

surgeries and if he performed more surgeries he would not be able to

give the 1 on 1 care that I am now receiving. I guess that would be

true because he would always be at the hospital in surgeries.

So that sounded good enough to me and he is the most highly

recommended OS in this area according to my dearest friend who is an

Endodontist. My OD and Dentist also stated he is the only OS that

they would 100% trust to perform this surgery.

--Caboose

> > > I asked my surgeon how many he did last year and was shocked to

> hear

> > > that he only did about 8 of them... Does that seem as low to me

> as it

> > > does to you?

> > >

> > > I kind of overlooked this fact though, because my OS was the

> former

> > > head of a big local hospital's oral surgery department... am i

> > > worrying about nothing