10/29/2025
After I fill out the qualification form, how long does it take to get qualified, and how long will I have to wait to get my surgery done? So it's really not a hard process. What we need to determine whether or not you're a candidate for surgery is an x-ray. You have scoliosis.
We need to see that most recent x-ray you've had from the front, the side view, and if you have some bend views, that's very helpful. Once we know that in your age and your health, which is part of the question here of filling out, it's essentially an evaluation that can be done very quickly within a week or two, depending on your schedule. Really, I see, I interview patients every Monday.
Dr. Betz interviews patients every week, and so it's not a hard process. If you're qualified after that Zoom, then just realistically, logistically, it takes about six weeks to get a date for surgery because you have to get some medical work done, chest x-ray, back and forth. So anywhere from four weeks to two months is probably a reasonable amount of time.
So scoliosis surgery is not an emergency. It can be done electively, so you could decide to have it six months later. Sometimes, depending on growth, we don't like to wait that long, but on average, probably about two months.
