Clavicle Lengthening to correct deformity (older threads not very helpful)

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Older threads seem more centered around insulting/manipulating those who explore this surgery for cosmetic reasons.  Forum seems overrun by people with insecure frames.  Not judging.  But anyone on here know any doctors who would be willing or even have the know how to lengthen a clavicle that is shorter than the contralateral clavicle?

Funny thing is, a lot of bones are easily shortened by orthopedists and a lot of times they won't hesitate to do it, but lengthening is apparently off limits.  Kind of stupid.

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Thought my first post answered that, asymmetry.

Further info, causes instability/impaired function.  Yet, it is sometimes imposed by doctors because they believed it a prudent option in treating certain conditions.  And incoming data is changing what convention said to do, leaving everyone worked on prior deformed by the medical community and out in the cold.

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On a lighter note, despite some of the warnings on height augmentation, some of the remarks that comes out of people around here are hilarious.  Like taken out of context: "you said society made you break your legs!!"<-I laughed for 15 minutes at that one.

And another question, anybody know why some of the prices of these medical devices are so ridiculously high?  When I look at them, they're not all that special.  I've seen more complicatex tools in an auto shop.  And the material of construction is usually some polymer or surgical grade steel (316 SSL), so nothing special there.  I once talked to a vendor of radiology equipment and he showed me maybe a 5ft roll of stents which badically looked like a wire mesh chinese finger trap, dude said it cost $100k, and I was like "ta fuq?!"

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"Because they can".  See, THOSE are issues that need to be addressed in nationalized health care.  Not forcing everyone to buy health insurance, especially those who don't want it.

Yeah, spoke with Millrights workers who worked in fab. shops and they said you could make just about anything you want, like an isometric 3d printer.

As far as the plan, who knows.  This seems to be the most natural and effective way of achieving customized bone growth at this juncture.  There are other processes in research for accomplishing the same thing, but that's all they are at this point, experimental.

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Sorry, a little all over the place.  It's just that it's a sick to charge people large sums of money in exchange for their health (killing their pocketbook instead of their body).  It's not like the people who need health care the most have large sums of money to afford this stuff and people getting surgery for cosmetic reasons drive the price up.

That last paragraph was in response to another post, sorry about that.

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You shouldn't guarantee that.  Whether it's privatized or public health care, economic forces are at work in both.  May not be worth debating though.

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I've contacted both and we'll see what they say.  They primarily deal with congenital defects in children.

Actually, if you are in Europe, they have the only published info that I've seen on this very procedure performed at the Royal Health Institute whom I've contacted as well.  So, we'll see.