Reddit mentions of Facial Gender Affirmation Surgery, An Issue of Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America, Ebook (The Clinics: Surgery 27)

Hey y'all! I'm working with an otorhinolaryngologist who's become a facial plastic surgeon here in Mexico City. We've been getting into the practice of facial feminization surgery for transgender patients and this surgeon I work with has been working really hard to improve considerably. I was his first FFS patient (Type 3 forehead feminization, rhinoplasty and thyroid cartillage reduction) and volunteered as a beta tester for the frontoplasty. The results were adequate, although we noticed many things that could be improved about the forehead work.

This feedback was applied into some cadaver testing and it helped a lot with another two patients he had to do a frontoplasty on (One to remove an osteoma in the frontal sinus and another one for type 3 forehead reconstruction last Thursday. This last one went pretty well and I reckon he's learned a lot since mine). So much so that another world renowed FFS surgeon he's friends with praised my doc's work on the forehead through Instagram.

Now, we've been looking at a course this organization called Facial Team offers in Marbella Spain. The doc was part of the first webinar they ever organized in 2018 for trans facial surgery, and they personally invited the doc to the FFS training course in Spain, but we didn't have the resource for that at the time.

We are looking into enrolling to this course, but the problem is how much they're charging: Around $26,000 USD for ONE WEEK (Link to download last year's course HERE). We are located in Mexico and, the doc has always trained in public universities (Which here are completely free of charge) and been able to get scholarships (Full or partial) for high level specializations. We do question whether it's worth investing into this or not.

So, in your opinion, is it worth taking this course for him? We feel like it's just too much money for what they're teaching, and the doc's been learning plenty with books like the one released by Dr. Somenek and plenty of scientific research papers on the matter. Nevermind that he constantly updates his knowledge.