Cymy Sue

Hi Staize & Welcome,
I'm not sure if anyone here knows about this particular procedure. We have several members who have had other surgeries. I had auricular cartilage replacements in 92, they failed. I had a discectomy in 97 with no replacements. I was told at that time there was nothing autogenous that would hold up.

We've had another new member in the past few days to mention the same procedure and you 2 are the first to mention fat grafts. I asked her some questions about it, as I was very curious regarding what I was told 6 years ago and she has not answered. I'll bump the post up in case you may know some of the answers. I would be interested in knowing more about it. (The topic is titled "kaamom".)

Different members have had different procedures, some successes some not. Again, I don't believe anyone knows about this and I did some research and couldn't find anything about it.

If this helps, I did well with the cartilage replacements for 2 years. The surgery was not a hard surgery to get over and I was pain free for 2 years. Then the grafts failed and I was back in the same mess or worse. kaamom, the other member did say that fat grafts were suppose to work better than anything used before. I don't understand why there is no information about this procedure.

Maybe someone else who is interested has found some information that would be helpful to you.

Would you mind posting the Doctors name, that is within the guidelines. (We may not post web-sites.)

Cymy Sue

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