How accurate is Virtual FFS?
It’s very difficult to give an exact answer to this. If the surgeon and patient decide to go for my recommendations; the surgeon is skilled and there are no anatomical problems with the patient that limit the amount of change that can be made to any unusual degree, then they are pretty accurate – I would say something like 80% accurate. However, virtuals are more about planning the surgery than predicting an exact result – it’s a way of sketching out the possibilities and seeing which changes are likely to work for you and what your personal preferences are. For example, you might have a tall square chin and I might reduce the height a little and make it more rounded. You look at the pictures and it clearly shows that chin work is going to help feminise your face, however, your surgeon might say “Yes, but I want to make the chin slightly more pointed and you might say to the surgeon “Can you also make it a tiny bit shorter?” So, the pictures reliably showed the importance of chin femin
