If I were a surgeon and got a question like that, I would think twice about even offering to perform the surgery. Doing a LF3 on a patient that is not even sure he wants it, doesnt need it for functional reasons, and already is talking about revision is a setup to get an unhappy patient. Patient should also understand that it would be a logical approach to wait with the decission then.
Yes. BINGO!
He needs to DISCLOSE to the doctors he's consulting about L3 that he has a HISTORY of asking for things he does not/did not fully understand ramifications of request and NOT LIKING the result. Hence, he SHOULD NOT implicitly assume he will like the RESULT of the surgery he requests to be done which is WHY he needs to ask the doctor; 'What if I don't like the result, can it be reversed if I don't like it.'
My impression of the OP is that he might not understand what he is asking for and why or just has a hard time processing information. I've already told him in this (long) thread not to toss in L3 with the myriad of possibilities he is juggling and struggling with because it is something to put on BACK BURNER and something people consider AFTER their jaw to jaw situation is already in BALANCE. Not to mention, there is also the option of 'mimicking' a (modified) L3 with face implants. Not to belabor that particular option BUT the SALIENT point (at least the one I, myself have tried to stress to him) is NOT TO EVEN THINK about L3 at this point in time.
If you 'read between the lines', he's asking OTHERS to THINK ABOUT this FOR HIM. Also, if you read some of my earlier responses to him where I became frustrated when it did not appear to me that he was PROCESSING INFORMATION, my concern is that he's just asking for stuff in the absence of understanding the ramifications of what he is asking for. You will also note in this (long) string where I began to grill him of what he possibly asked for in the first place and why, he mentions he was hoping to 'CORRECT HIS SPEECH' via the first surgery. But as the grilling went on, he equated speech with the way PEOPLE LOOK AT HIM when he talks. That made NO logical sense to me that this 'speech problem' turned out to be HOW PEOPLE LOOK AT HIM and to me, IMO, revealed a FAULTY REASONING process where the END RESULT is that he ASKS FOR SOMETHING, (a surgery) for a weird reason and later DOES NOT LIKE HOW it looks ON HIS FACE.
That said, I most certainly will not give him any information about L3 or what to ask a doctor about concerning that OTHER than what he REALLY NEEDS TO THINK ABOUT which is 'What if he does not like' what he is requesting after it's accommodated and done.
