Nice work with all your imaging! Certainly looking at your sagittal views it looks like the C1 process is contributing a fair bit to the compression, I’m not experienced nor confident enough with looking at the axial views to see whether that’s the case though, as sometimes the two views can give very different perspectives… @TML was very active on here before his surgery & gave members excellent advice looking at their scans, he did also post a tutorial if you’ve not seen it, you’ve obviously done research yourself so not sure if you’d learn anything yourself:
Axial CT tutorial - General - Living with Eagle
But you might be able to see the C1 processes clearer on other images to judge the compression?
I think really all you can do as we suggest to all members is to get at least 2 opinions , and to go with your gut on who you trust most, there have been quite a few members who’ve been given different opinions by the most well know VES doctors in the US unfortunately , C1 shaves are relatively new, so the full benefits and adverse effects aren’t well known yet. Dr Aghayev who you’ve spoken to is pretty thorough with his technique & trimming the C1 process, other doctors are more conservative but then that might not be enough, I wishe we could give you more definite answers!
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