More people are inquiring about limb lengthening surgeries to become taller, according to doctors.'I've been getting more inquiries than in the past, and I think that's because ther...
"I've been getting more inquiries than in the past, and I think that's because there are more people who have gotten the procedure done at this point and those people, a lot of them have told their stories on social media," said Dr. Taylor Reif, a surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery. He focuses on limb lengthening and complex reconstruction.
The process isn't easy. Surgery only takes a couple hours and patients stay in the hospital for one to two days after, but it's the weeks and months after that that are spent lengthening the bone."While that bone is distracting over time, we actually have patients put limited amount of weight on that leg," Dr. Catanzano said.
"There's really not a ton of risk in the surgery … everything is done through small incisions. The amount of bleeding is very manageable. I think people are really worried about pain, but I think most people are surprised that surgery is less painful than they think it's going to be," Dr. Reif said."The shorter you are, the harder it is to lengthen you the full three inches that we generally use as a baseline," Dr. Reif said.
"This should be a relatively rare procedure in terms of doing this for stature purposes," Dr. Reif said.
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