This is typical behaviour from Mommaerts and he told me almost exactly the same thing when he told me that he doesn't want me as a patient anymore. It's amazing that he hasn't learnt a damn thing and still continues with his "I'll fix it" bulls**t and expects the patients to just accept what he says. That's exactly how you end up with patients that have unrealistic expectations. It sucks that you've already paid half the amount but surely they will pay you back if you cancel the surgery? They might charge you an administrative fee or something but unless you've signed a contract already then I don't see how they can legally withhold the money.
Gregor : SEE WHAT I WROTE TO YOU IN PM....AND THEN CONTINUE TO READ
No I haven't paid yet.
I wrote this to him one week ago:
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Hello Professor
We are going to have last consultation one day before surgery in order to talk about some small issues like whether augumentation of the orbital floor will be necessary or not, if will, then which material ..I prefer my own bone,…. You talked about some computer simulation, etc
I don’t know how much time are You going to give me on the consultation, but since I better write in english [I don’t use it in regular talk] I decided to write down all my concerns. I tried to visualise how this surgery looks like and during this process I encounterd two rather small , but important issues.
1. afraid of lost feeling in the area supplied by small zygomatic nerve. You told that this small nerve/nerves may be cut during accessing to zygomatic arch through the mouth and MOST people do not feel any distirbuances, but its unclear from the medical point of view. Perhaps just in case better try to save this small nerve/nerves. I fill nervous about this. I will discuss with you about incision in other place to get access to zygomatic arch and the disadvantages of the another approach. I hope it will be possible to have some another options.
I am not sure there is a way to avoid this. 2. Infraorbital nerve decompression. The outcome is a gamble. I know. OK. However I very care to do it ONCE and never back to the problem again. For example if the procedure will not help in the proper amount of the time after surgery [pain will be still exist] I i’m not gonna think “OK it didnt helped, but perhaps there is still compression deeper on the orbital floor” I’m thinking about exploring the whole canal and orbital floor to be sure about that - in that way I will feel more comfortable. I have read few months ago that in that case its good to explore the whole canal and orbital floor [if its save], because broken orbital floor can also compress somewhere the nerve, but it musn’t be in that case. I dont know if the CT can answer that. I saw whole article but I lost it. This is just an abstract:http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/17237691
I did recently a decompression for a German doctor. I was surprised it helped, even immediately.That all my concerns. Nothing else. Of course we will discuss about that during consultation.
I hope that will not discourage You to help me, especially at this stage. Let me just know, is still OK ?
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Please note, that I just informed him about my concerns and didn't require any consultations via mail. I just wanted to know if he will be able to change some procedures. I was very anxious about this. I cant just go out from home/work and go to talk to him, because I live 1200kms from Brussels.
The problem was about destroying the nerves. His answer was so unclear that I wrote to him again. The message I copied here earlier in this thread