Why aren't people concerned about weird femur:tibia ratio?

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Quote from: 1team on January 14, 2023, 11:22:14 PMThe proportions don't matter type people are either trying to justify their more extreme lengthening goals and are ignorant of various studies/reality that most humans are around 0.8 tibia/femur ratio.

Other reason is viewing their body like any other item. They have spent a large amount of money for surgery and they want "to make it worth it". This usually means very large to extreme lengthenings which will give odd proportions.

I agree with this. But given that you acknowledge that, would you say people who do a typical 2-3” lengthening end up looking okay?

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Quote from: tempthrowaway on January 14, 2023, 11:37:53 PMI agree with this. But given that you acknowledge that, would you say people who do a typical 2-3” lengthening end up looking okay?

I have yet to see a 2 inch lengthening look weird to me.

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Quote from: 1team on January 14, 2023, 11:22:14 PMThe proportions don't matter type people are either trying to justify their more extreme lengthening goals and are ignorant of various studies/reality that most humans are around 0.8 tibia/femur ratio.

Other reason is viewing their body like any other item. They have spent a large amount of money for surgery and they want "to make it worth it". This usually means very large to extreme lengthenings which will give odd proportions.

To me there is 2 ways; want perfect proportions or want to get taller? If first don‘t do the surgery, period. 
Ratio is a price to pay for getting taller. Of course there is a limit but I would have never ever done this hardcore extreme brutal surgery for 2 inches (nobody didn‘t even notice anything at 2inches).
People that think they will do 2 or 3 surgeries and even arms and whatever for proportions are always those that haven‘t experienced one surgery to begin with. I was the same before but once you are in you understand how brutal that whole thing is. So once you are in it‘s perfectly justifiable going for the maximum your body safely tolerates in my eyes.

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Long tibias look better than femurs. If you are not obsessed with numbers, it would be better to do the tibia. If your only goal is to be 1-3 cm more taller and it doesn't matter how you look, choose femur.

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Long femurs look bad.

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Is it possible to lengthen both tibia and femur in a single operation (by 3 inches total - so 1.5in to femur and 1.5in to tibia)?

I'm 5ft9 and both my tibias and femurs are short. So I feel that if I only did femurs, I'd definitely have my knees too low. I could do only tibia as well, which would look much more natural than femur only, but my ideal case would be splitting the 3in between femur and tibia. 2in-1in or 1.5in-1.5in.

Thanks

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It’s been done, but it’s not recommended because it’s extremely difficult apparently.

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Quote from: tempthrowaway on February 09, 2023, 01:44:01 AMIt’s been done, but it’s not recommended because it’s extremely difficult apparently.

I see some surgeons don't even do femurs. People say lengthening tibia looks better aesthetically and I agree, my tibias are quite short. I really wouldn't wanna add all of the 3 inches to my femurs. I'd rather lengthen my tibias by 3 inches. Would it be more "normal/standard" to just add 3 inches to tibia and not lengthen femur at all? Thanks

I also see some surgeons recommend 2 inches (~5cm) max for tibias, I'd be okay with that too if what I'm talking about actually makes sense.

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Most people who get the procedure just get one segment, not both.  Of course proportion-wise it's better to do both segments, but most people sacrifice ideal proportions for the ease of not doing two surgeries

Some guys on here have done about 3" on tibias, but most doctors would not recommend going over 5 or 6 cm.  I'm probably going to go 5cm on tibias.

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Quote from: tempthrowaway on February 09, 2023, 02:53:14 AMbut most doctors would not recommend going over 5 or 6 cm.  I'm probably going to go 5cm on tibias.

I've been researching more and what you said is what I keep reading (5-6cm max on tibias). I doubt it'd be worth taking more risks for a centimeter so I guess I'd stop at 5cm on tibias too.

So could this be the best formula?: good surgeon + internal + 5cm on tibia + unrushed lengthening