Proportions are really going to start mattering. This surgery is getting exposed to the mainstream more every year. Anyone with way too long femurs or tibs or who just flat out did too much lengthening get prepared to be called out. I don't think this is beneficial for patients.
https://people.com/health/actor-rich-rotella-has-cosmetic-limb-lengthening-surgery/
"The hardest part, I would say, is the pain. It's unbelievably painful," Rotella says. "The pain is brutal. It feels like two sharks biting my thighs." - lordy, he and he's only at 2.3cm...thought precice was supporsed to be the least painful option 
Love this from Dr. Paley: Paley emphasizes, however, that not every short person wants to be taller. "I know CEOs of companies who are 5'4", and they walk with their head high, proud. They walk around as if they're six feet tall," Paley says. "And I know people who are 5'10" and they look like they're 5'4" because of how they carry themselves. And I don't know why that happens — since not every 5'4" person wants to be lengthened."
Alright well... to conceal it, so the best strategy is to do a modest amount of lengthening, do scar treatment with laser to decrease/flatten it, and then a tattoo if that doesn't fully disguise it?
Quote from: elanxr on November 15, 2022, 10:08:36 AMLove this from Dr. Paley: Paley emphasizes, however, that not every short person wants to be taller. "I know CEOs of companies who are 5'4", and they walk with their head high, proud. They walk around as if they're six feet tall," Paley says. "And I know people who are 5'10" and they look like they're 5'4" because of how they carry themselves. And I don't know why that happens — since not every 5'4" person wants to be lengthened."
Just replace a longer skeleton length with a whiter skin complexion and a shorter skeleton length with a darker skin complexion and observe how it suddenly doesn’t sound so cool:
Quote Paley emphasizes, however, that not every black person wants to be white. "I know CEOs of companies who are black, and they walk with their head high, proud. They walk around as if they're white," Paley says. "And I know people who are white and they look like they're black because of how they carry themselves. And I don't know why that happens — since not every black person wants to be whiter."
Quote from: SpeedDialer on November 15, 2022, 05:28:02 PMAlright well... to conceal it, so the best strategy is to do a modest amount of lengthening, do scar treatment with laser to decrease/flatten it, and then a tattoo if that doesn't fully disguise it?
I'm not sure about your last points but I think modest amounts will be the way going forward. Sort of like how people getting cosmetic dentistry have to get a more subtle natural look otherwise it looks like big fake teeth which people now know are veneers or crowns.
Because so few people knew about this surgery in the past if your proportions were a unnatural no one would even think you had LL surgery, simply because they didn't know it was a thing. Now with increasing exposure that time is coming to an end.
Quote from: TheDream on November 15, 2022, 06:54:27 PMJust replace a longer skeleton length with a whiter skin complexion and a shorter skeleton length with a darker skin complexion and observe how it suddenly doesn’t sound so cool:
Agreed, totally not a cool statement to make
What scar laser/scar decreasing treatments have you guys looked into? To conceal that you have had it done
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I don't think scarring is the major issue but you don't ever want to be in a situation like
https://twitter.com/roywoodjr/status/1443967124691722254
Who flat out lengthened too much, even if he lengthened his humerus his body was just too small to do 15cm.
or
http://drpiliortopedico.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/PRIMA-E-DOPO-8-cm-1-mese-post-rimozione-11-mesi-post-op.jpg
Who lengthened one section way too much.
Quote from: 1team on November 16, 2022, 06:02:10 AMI don't think scarring is the major issue but you don't ever want to be in a situation like
https://twitter.com/roywoodjr/status/1443967124691722254
Who flat out lengthened too much, even if he lengthened his humerus his body was just too small to do 15cm.
or
http://drpiliortopedico.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/PRIMA-E-DOPO-8-cm-1-mese-post-rimozione-11-mesi-post-op.jpg
Who lengthened one section way too much.
The scars are minor visually but then there is their regularity though, wonder if any forum member here has tried any laser treatment
I know a female patient in Athens is considering getting it
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