More Men Having Surgery to Make Themselves Taller

Thanks, pretty interesting stuff. You have to wear those external fixator frames for many weeks because a gradual lengthening is performed (1mm/day which after completed to length then requires more weeks to wait for full consolidation of the new bone growth. This long time in the frames can drive some people to such frustration they try to remove them prematurely by themselves (called "cage rage"). Anyhow, the guy I'm linking below, Dror Paley, MD, is one of the best at this stuff in the world. I've attended a few of his lectures and done a quite a number of static frame procedures myself for other indications (mostly diabetic Charcot foot and ankle reconstructions). There are a lot of potential complications associated with this procedure:

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No one wants unexpected problems, complications, and cost. For these reasons, we are very conservative regarding many aspects of the limb lengthening process. Dr. Paley is vigilant about anticipating problems and preventing c...

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