I sent this in private but I might as well rehash it here for those who're interested. It's not my intention to be a surgeon shill.
I didn't have to pay for any of my consults with Dr Triaca oddly enough - though I could be the exception and not the rule. Who knows?
During my consult I was given a couple hours to have scans done, photos taken, occlusion looked at, and then discuss everything in great detail. He sat down with me and let me go ask all the questions I wanted, showed me things on models, and discussed some of my options in terms of an aesthetic outcome based on some simulations. He also took lots of notes and asked me to come back again to think everything over and go through a surgical plan one final time. It didn't feel at all rushed.
Truthfully I couldn't have asked for much more.
Mommaerts listened me for 1h 15m for 80 Euros, However there was a big problem when I realised 3 weeks before surgery that we had little missunderstanding in surgical plan and I asked about rebooking surgery because I needed one more consultation. I even propose his department to move another patient on my surgery date/time. For sure the could have found someone from the queue who wanted to have surgery earlier. But not. He told me that I have to pay whole amonut of money and we will talk about my doubt just before surgery. I got high anxiety because of that . You know one doubt about surgery and also what will happen with my money If I cancel my surgery. They put me in the stressful situation and I did not know what to do... they just canceled my surgery and they "banned me" - no surgery in future for me in his Clinic. I wanted good, but they acted strange. Patient should have some support in that situations. You have doubts too late, pay now, we will see... it doesnt work in that way.
However one thing, I was driving to him 10 hours by a car. and to his private Clinic. Generally everything looked great. I had very good conversation with him. He understood me. But there was problem when I started to have only one small doubt and asked him about preparing another surgical approach/plan. (the plan wasn't nothing special - only how to cut my malar bone, in which place, thats all. His surgical approach could destroyed my small zygomatic nerve at high probability, which i wanted to avoid) Then everything has changed.
Something inside me told "You can't go there having doubts, and do not pay, before everything will be discussed well"
I wanted to stay with him..I just wanted him to give me more time and talk about another solution. But his department didn't give me a choice.
I think Mommaerts is good surgeon. He operate a lot of people, so he may has more botched cases..some even very. However he could be more patient for the patients
There is no surgeon without fails. The question is, that, is he very good . Some say, not.
