October 07, 2004
Required Appts for Post Op F\/FG
There aren't many appts required after the initial operation. At six weeks you go to your local Ortho and they take xrays-regular and frog legs ones. Make sure the graft is straight and nothing looks strange. At 3 months post op you go to your local Ortho and take the same xrays. At this time you may see some incorporation of the graft but may not. These films are sent to Duke to Dr Urbaniak where he looks at them and send you a report back of how you are doing. This report takes about a month to get in the mail. Then six months, again, you see your local Ortho, same xrays, sends to Duke, same report and same waiting time. Finally the last appt is at one year in which you return to Duke to see Dr Urbaniak. I will be coming up on this in January 2005 but I assume its the same procedure, just you get your answers then and not a month from then.
Star
Posted by Star on October 7, 2004 10:01 PM