Femur or Tibia

Hello.

I am struggling if I should do tibia or femur lengthing.

I am 177cm tall. My femur to tibia ratio is 81.3%
Femur: 46cm
Tibia 37,6cm
wingspan 178cm

I would like to do only 5 cm as I think more is to risky and will destroy my proportions.
I wanted to go for femur as it is faster consolidating and less risky.

I have created mockups:

Original
http://image-upload.de/image/3fFIRq/940232ac5e.jpg

Femur 5cm
http://image-upload.de/image/goJV65/d597fddb3d.jpg

Tibia 5cm
http://image-upload.de/image/ruxdIa/3b8a4d879b.jpg

What do you guys think?

another 5'10, those short guys must be mad now, btw do tibia, are u 177cm at your lowest?

I think your femur image looks better, but when doing 5 cm, tibias is way cheaper and the risks arent significantly higher. either could work.

You look like a tibia patient to me.  They're kind of short in proportion to the rest of your body.  And that slight bowing could be fixed also in the process.

Why do you think my tibias are short? As far as I have googled .8 is the avarage femur/tibia ratio. Thus my tibia are little shorter than my femurs.

I want to go  with internal nails. Also I am afraid of the scars. Thus I tend to do internal femur with e.g Betz.

I read that tibia with internal nails is risky and thus they recommend external methods with tibia. But there I will get lots of scars and have the risk of infections right?

Next problem I have is that I can only stay 6 monts away from my job.

I appreciate your input!

Why do most prefer here tibia? In the old forum only femur seems to be done by the patients.

Can Someone Help me with descission.
Tibia seems to be only bc of money the right choise.
But Perhaps also bc of proportions? If I Do femur i would have 0.73 ratio. I not sure if this would look way off.

Quote from: coppkillr on September 02, 2014, 05:40:05 PM