ColoplastTitanUpOver wrote:thedriver wrote:Discovernew wrote:
Driver would you ever be willing to do the show and tell you offered me long time ago? I am stil considering a malleable for my next revision but never managed to meet with anyone who has it.
I absolutely would do a show and tell.
I agree on the surgeons pushing the IPP's more than the MPP's simply for the money part of it, every time I had a revision I went in there with the MPP on my mind asking more and more questions about it and each time I was diverted somehow into the MPP discussion and was talked into it by there staff and surgeons.
The last time I went in for another revision I was pissed and they knew it, as soon as the surgeon brought up going with another IPP, I kind of blew, sort of read him off on them and threw in the money part, mentioned a lawyer and getting another Dr. opinion and all of a sudden I was scheduled for a MPP surgery, the surgeon looked at me like I was breaking up a relationship with him.
Why would they want to install something that will put you back in the game and they would have very little chance of making money off you again ?
Of course they are going to push the IPP's over the MPP's.
This is just my opinion from what I have seen, done, experienced, paid for and went thru.
They are there to make money as big and fast as they can.
Interesting. About 50% of IPPs last 20+ years, according to large-scale, multi-institutional, peer-reviewed studies.
If you don't mind me asking, did you use a high-volume, dedicated implanter for your surgery?
Was the implant subjected to heavy abuse?
I'm intrigued by your pattern of repeated early failures. Your experience sounds like an extreme outlier, though still educational. Thanks for your story.
His experience is not an extreme outlier. Its is well known that the titan otr pump has tubing issues which lead to early failures.
The ones that lasted 20 years were a different generation of pumps, literally more than 20 years ago.
