Why so many people are doing (internal) femurs?

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Quote from: prakash419 on September 19, 2017, 09:46:58 PMMy question is well researched and I dont need you to certify. What are you doing? just trolling around other peoples' diaries and sending them personal messages with abuses, you dont even have the guts to call me 'retarded' here (which was you first personal message to me calling me retarted). And I know who I am (a perfect SAT, GMAT, GRE guy, MBA from top university, senior manager in a fortune 500 company and I made it on my own coming from a poor rural family in India, what did you do with your life besides abusing people and trying to belittle them to feel intelligent ?).

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Well I wonder if they have you solve difficult problems in that fortune 500 company of yours.

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Quote from: google42 on September 19, 2017, 01:01:04 PMIt's mostly because femurs are easier to do and it takes less time when your using internals. Also you can get away with lengthening more on the femurs so people who want to do like 7-8 cm are probably better off doing femurs.

this.

also internal tibia is less seamless than internal femur. if you read diaries, a lot of members who do internal femur explain their reasoning behind it.

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Thanks a lot. Yes, these reasons seem to drive most internal option guys to go for the femur. thanks

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Quote from: prakash419 on September 20, 2017, 08:30:15 PMThanks a lot. Yes, these reasons seem to drive most internal option guys to go for the femur. thanks

Allow me to join the discussion,internal femurs are prefered because imply a significantly minor risk of permanent knee pain.I will link you an wide study on risk of femur and tibia regarding the use of intramedullary nails.
The best method for tibia seems to be external,while internal for femurs
Edited:here is the link,good lecture                           http://www.bjj.boneandjoint.org.uk/content/88-B/5/576

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Thanks a lot. My biggest thought was - makes perfect sense to do femur if internal is what one has decide on - but am I the only one bothered about the fact that Femurs are already lengthier than tibias and people lengthening femur are going to much more odd compared to what they would look if they lengthen tibia, that was my question - any thoughts?

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Quote from: prakash419 on September 20, 2017, 08:59:03 PMThanks a lot. My biggest thought was - makes perfect sense to do femur if internal is what one has decide on - but am I the only one bothered about the fact that Femurs are already lengthier than tibias and people lengthening femur are going to much more odd compared to what they would look if they lengthen tibia, that was my question - any thoughts?

No,you're not the only one.I'm interested in tibias
It is true that lengthening tibias will allow you to achieve a way better aestethical result,no doubt.Long tibias make a person to appear taller while longer femurs not,too long femurs may lead an ugly result.
But the truth is that tibias are more difficult:longer time of healing,2 bones that have to regenerate(also fibula),can handle less cm than femurs.If one person wants big ammounts of lengthening,usually choices femurs

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Quote from: The Dreamer on September 20, 2017, 09:09:08 PMNo,you're not the only one.I'm interested in tibias
It is true that lengthening tibias will allow you to achieve a way better aestethical result,no doubt.Long tibias make a person to appear taller while longer femurs not,too long femurs may lead an ugly result.
But the truth is that tibias are more difficult:longer time of healing,2 bones that have to regenerate(also fibula),can handle less cm than femurs.If one person wants big ammounts of lengthening,usually choices femurs

And don't forget risk of Achilles Tendon surgery, if you lengthen Tibia past 4 cm.

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Thanks dreamer and FDR 101. FDR - I have made up my mind to have external tibia in next one year (and then internal femurs) so would appreciate if you can shed light on your point about "Achilles Tendon surgery" - I keep hearing about this issue but have limited knowledge on - are you saying that lengthening tibia beyond 4 CM may stretch the Achilles Tendon so much that a surgery might be needed to lengthen that as well? would appreciate if you can elaborate. I read people doing like 8 CM (hell even we have people doing 10 CM!! (on tibia itself). My aim is minimal 6 CM, maximum (if possible) 7 CM on tibia using external. Can you shed some light on the topic Achilles Tendon surgery? thanks

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Quote from: prakash419 on September 20, 2017, 08:59:03 PMThanks a lot. My biggest thought was - makes perfect sense to do femur if internal is what one has decide on - but am I the only one bothered about the fact that Femurs are already lengthier than tibias and people lengthening femur are going to much more odd compared to what they would look if they lengthen tibia, that was my question - any thoughts?

I think longer femurs would look fine. If your already at a taller starting height then you could just do tibias because you don't need more lengthening unlike shorter people and it will be cheaper

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"internal is faster with minimal scar"
that's actually wrong. It depend on the doctor. But Pili told me that there is more scars with external (tibias - of course externals are not the good solution for femurs), but they are small and disappearing faster
Also with internals you don't have to support these things attached to your legs but both internal femurs and externals tibias give a long recovery
And look at Unicorn, you will see that internal femurs even with one of the more expensive and present doctor is not safe.