Tibia or Femur?

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What would you rather do? Tibia or Femur?
I'm 5'11 with a goal of 6'2-6'3, my Femur is about 3 inches longer than my tibia,
So I guess that if I will extend the femur it will look pretty weird. What do you think ? I'm also aware of the fact that you can extend the femur more than the tibia and thus getting better results, but the fact that I'm 5'11 means I can extend the tibia probably a bit longer than other people who are 5-5 or 5-6 etc.

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Do you know what your tibia/femur ratio is?  Research has suggested it's safer to have a longer femur.

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Quote from: FormerKidd on April 09, 2018, 02:36:05 PMDo you know what your tibia/femur ratio is?  Research has suggested it's safer to have a longer femur.

I've masured my tibia is:42 cm and femur is 49-48

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Please let us know the doctors who are not doing only internal Precice and who'd agree to operate on you.

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Quote from: myloginacct on April 09, 2018, 04:21:57 PMPlease let us know the doctors who are not doing only internal Precice and who'd agree to operate on you.

well I was thinking of doing internal only anyway but what do you mean? That doctors are only willing to do the surgery on people that are considered short such as 5'7 and under? (Though I'm pretty sure that most doctors will take any paying patient  )

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Quote from: Johnathan on April 09, 2018, 08:37:58 PMwell I was thinking of doing internal only anyway but what do you mean? That doctors are only willing to do the surgery on people that are considered short such as 5'7 and under? (Though I'm pretty sure that most doctors will take any paying patient  )

you want my frank opinion? if as a 5'11 guy you want LL, you must get your brains checked first, and any surgeon who does LL on a 5'11" guy also needs to be in a mental asylum or jail. This is not a nose job or chin implant.

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Quote from: 7231 on April 10, 2018, 02:41:05 PMany surgeon who does LL on a 5'11" guy also needs to be in a mental asylum or jail

To be fair, Dr. Paley does, and I actually agree with his opinion. I admit that it's easier to agree when a doctor is using state of the art internal devices combined with expertise, lowering risk down to a minimum (as it should be for elective cosmetic procedures).

Some of us want to go from below average to average, some want to go from above average to their ideal. If they've got the money, time, and understand the risks... Who am I to judge.

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Quote from: Android on April 10, 2018, 05:32:10 PMTo be fair, Dr. Paley does, and I actually agree with his opinion. I admit that it's easier to agree when a doctor is using state of the art internal devices combined with expertise, lowering risk down to a minimum (as it should be for elective cosmetic procedures).

Some of us want to go from below average to average, some want to go from above average to their ideal. If they've got the money, time, and understand the risks... Who am I to judge.

That's exactly why I phrased my sentence the way I did. There's a huge leap between Paley agreeing to do it to some doctor agreeing to do external femurs because this one (just an example, not a personal attack) young, insecure, tall kid would like to be even taller, but also has undiagnosed BDD and finds lengthening his tibias to be a total non-option. So he goes to some country to get his femurs lengthened externally, despite his stature and finances. The doctor sees and ignores that. That's why I think we should know the name of those doctors... Some have even been shameless and didn't say 10cm should not be a goal due to safety reasons.

Sadly, CLL is full of doctors with poor ethical standards. But I guess that's a given considering how controversial it is.

EDIT: Still yet to watch that whole presentation, by the way. Doing so when I find the time.

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Quote from: myloginacct on April 10, 2018, 05:44:12 PMSadly, CLL is full of doctors with poor ethical standards. But I guess that's a given considering how controversial it is.

EDIT: Still yet to watch that whole presentation, by the way. Doing so when I find the time.

Definitely, hence the importance for a psych eval too. Some are average or tall and simply want more height, some are devastated with life and are hinging everything on a few inches. The latter patient needs counseling before CLL.

In the video, he says that a prospective was going to take out a second mortgage on the house and get CLL behind their wife's back. Needless to say he was denied as a patient. Not only is CLL controversial, it has so much stigma that it makes people desperate, acting irrationally at times. The massive amount of commitment, both money and time, just adds to the confusion.

FYI, I watched the video at 1.25~1.5x to save a little time 

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How do you properly measure tibia and femur length? Is that even possible without x-rays?