Before any treatment or surgery, it is always important to first establish the reasons for surgery and the expected outcome. Your definition of best results may be different from that of the surgeon’s. Thus, I will advise for you to have a discussion with your surgeon prior to surgery to better understand the intent of the surgery and what it is trying to achieve and address. As with any surgery, there are risks involved. This is also an important aspect to discuss with your surgeon to help you better understand the limitations, if any, of the surgery.
Once a consensus between your surgeon and yourself has been reached, it would then be important to follow up closely with your surgeon for post-surgery reviews as well as be compliant to any medications that have been prescribed to help with healing and to reduce risk of infection.
Also, different surgeons may choose to do different procedures to address the same problem. As such, recovery time may vary for different treatment modalities.
