Hi and welcome to the site!
So pleased for you that you’ve got a diagnosis, and that Dr Suen is willing to do the surgery. I had a look to see mentions of him in the past discussions but not much has been said- all the doctors on our list have done successful surgery, but some were suggested a while ago so could explain why there’s no recent discussions.
Re the surgery, we have info in the Newbies Guide Section about surgery, there’s ideas of questions to ask a doctor and also a link to a surgery shopping list which a member wrote, here’s a link:
ES Information- Treatment: Surgery - Welcome / Newbies Guide to Eagle Syndrome - Living with Eagle
Having intra-oral surgery is a tougher recovery than external surgery, and is usually harder for the doctor to remove as much of the styloid, because access and visibility is less, you’ve obvs read up on that. In addition having both styloids done at the same time is also a tougher recovery and there can be alot of swelling; I would be wary of having both sides done at the same time intra-orally as the swelling would be quite tough; if you want to have surgery this way I would definitely talk to Dr Suen about how many of these he’s performed, how successful they were, and what measures he takes to help with the swelling. (Drains and or steroids are used by some doctors) Although it’s nice to get surgery over and done with if both sides are symptomatic!
It’s a tricky decision as to whether to go with Dr Suen or whether you travel elsewhere for surgery- some doctors do telehealth appts so you wouldn’t have to travel for initial appts at least, it might be worth considering getting a second opinion, depending on how many surgeries Dr Suen has done?
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