Stonewall,
If you take some time to search through Dr. Clavel's recent lumbar patients (who post on this site), you will find a small number with varying complications. Some have speculated that may be because of his association with Dr. Ritter-Lang. The fear is perhaps Dr. Clavel has adopted some of Ritter-Lang's assembly line approach.
I want to emphasize that this is only speculation. Every surgeon, no matter how talented and careful s/he is, will have less-than-stellar outcomes (some reported; some not reported).
So many factors go into how successful a procedure will be. Some are directly related to surgeon skill and approach; some are beyond a surgeon's control. Many times it's very hard, if not impossible, to determine if a problem was the result of surgeon incompetence.
Still, if a pattern has emerged, then it is worthy of consideration when one is trying to decide who to trust. In the end, I'm afraid it's all just an educated guess: part evidence; part intuition.
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1992: Bilateral bony fusion @ L5-S1
10/2013: M6 @ C5-6, C6-7 & L4-5
8/2014: Anterior Foraminotomy @ C3-4 & Posterior Lumbar Decompression (iO-flex)
1/2015: M6 @ C3-4
1/2017: Revision @ C3-4 (M6 replaced with new M6); M6 @ C4-5
4/2017: Posterior micro-decompression @ L4-5 & L5-S1
1/2018: M6 @ C2-3
8/2018: Revision @ C3-4 (M6 replaced with anterior fusion (no plate or screws))
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