I 100% agree with your experience. He takes way too many patients, difficult to talk to etc.
Why is he popular around here in the first place? I do have to say, the girl i talk to who had surgery with him, had outstanding results (bimax+genio+cheekbones).
What was planned/done in your case? Have u tried other Belgian private surgeons like dr Noorman van der Dussen?
I think he has become more popular lately due to increasing popularity of PEEK, and he's one of the few that does PEEK. In other words, PEEK is being hyped, and most people on this board follow hypes cause they're extremely insecure. Same was the case with cw a couple of years ago.
I don't think he's a bad surgeon, but he has too much patients and when you have too much patients, chances are the quality of an individual case diminishes. The quality of a procedure highly depends on the time that is put into a procedure and the finishing touch. Defranq is probably thinking too much about money, he should focus more on the quality. If he does that and he's willing to be open towards critique and a patient's opinion, he could be one of the best. He still has some passion and perfectionism in him, but too little time for each patient. The procedure and office are very chaotic with so much patients.
All in all I have to admit that he didn't do a very bad job with me. The outcome was better than before. The only thing is, he did only 80 percent of the plan.
Dr. Van der dussen is a nice guy but he's mainly focused on female feminization. Also, I don't think he does all his procedures himself (that's just my intuition). He should take a better assistent, cause his assistent is probably only at 50 percent of van der dussens level.
I don't think there's alot of choice when it comes to implants. You also have a dr. In Rotterdam. His in office results were the best I have ever seen, but he's very grumpy as well and only works with silicone.
Advantage of PEEK is that it can be taken out like silicone (unless it's porous peek, then it will be more difficult). Other advantage might be that infection is easier to treat. Well, at least it seems like that. I think I had an infection, but the infection went away. Maybe I didn't have an infection or I had a very mild infection, but defrancq was sure all infections with PEEK were treatable with antibiotics or went away by themselves. He probably spoke the truth about that. Van der dussen said infecions with PEEK were different than with silicone. But maybe there are different levels of infection, with the more dangerous category when you have fever etc. If you want to avoid infections with implants, you can do the external aproach. But you will have scars, which for a man is not super annoying if it's not very visible (some scars even add to attractivenes with men), but for a woman it is I guess.