Cruciate surgery....lateral suture or TPLO?

OK, I have been doing some reading and wondered which of the two procedures your dogs have had. What was the dogs condition in terms of injury prior to the operation and the level of success afterwards?

The vet mentioned both of these procedures today so looking for advice from those with direct experience.

Shady had TPLO and is now 100% on that leg, runs round like a looney, and does silly things with never a trace of discomfort and certainly no trace of a limp.
I would always go for this method now.

I had TPLO on both my dogs legs. I wouldn't of gone for one of the cheaper ops because of her size.

In terms of injury before the op she had 1 torn and 1 ruptured so was in quite a bad way. She done very well afterwards even with the torn one still needing doing 6 weeks after the ruptured one.

There are a few different ops i was given the option of 3 and i know since then there's a new one called TTA which is similar to TPLO.

..... i personally would only ever consider tplo in a dog of mine that weighed over 35kg... if my sibes ever needed this surgery(or my collie) it would be n 'over the top' every time.

Fudge weighs 21 KG

I think the vet did also mention TTA....

I read up about the different methods and TTA was one I was quite interested in having done as was TPLO.
The specialist at newmarket said TPLO would be the best for Shady, they also put an extra pin in her leg because she was so crazy and heavy. She did have to have that pin out about 8 weeks after surgery though as it caused some swelling, that was only a minor op though that took a few minutes.
I'm glad we had TPLO now I see the final result.

I know of someone who had TTA with great success.
TPLO is so invasive but has excellent results

Hoki had lateral suture in both knees.

Her right knee had completely ruptured quite some time before she came to us (judging by the muscle build up and the arthritis in the knee) and her left was badly damaged but not completely ruptured.

As I say if it wasn't for the arthritis caused by her owners not doing anything about the rupture, she'd have been fine.

The hydrotherapist I go to reckons that it is the best op for all but the heavy dogs.

Ozzy had TPLO surgery and made a very good recovery in the end. I even posted a vid of him running about one day (he was only let off under close supervision though, as I always feared he could hurt it again)

It was a long slow recovery process, with lots of crate-rest, but he did very well. I was amazed that he could walk again without limping, let alone run.

Our last dog had TPLO on both legs, started agility after recovery and did you would never have known there was anything wrong with him - at 9 years old he was keeping up with our young collie!