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Software engineers from big tech firms like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta are paying at least $75,000 to get 3 inches taller, a leg-lengthening surgeon says [They break the patients' legs. Recovery is long and painful.]
Business Insider via Yahoo ^ | September 15, 2022 | Katie Canales

Posted on 09/16/2022 8:47:26 AM PDT by grundle

Workers from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta are paying $75,000 to be taller, a surgeon told GQ.

The Las Vegas surgeon can lengthen patients' legs via a painful months-long process.

He breaks the thigh bones and inserts nails that are extended every day for three months.

A Las Vegas cosmetic surgeon who specializes in leg-lengthening procedures that can extend people's height by 3 to 6 inches told GQ magazine that many of his patients are tech workers.

Kevin Debiparshad founded LimbplastX Institute in 2016, and the clinic's business has boomed during the pandemic, he told GQ.

Here's how it works: The doctor breaks the patients' femurs, or thigh bones, and inserts metal nails into them that can be adjusted. The nails are extended a tiny bit every day for three months with a magnetic remote control, GQ reported.

It can take months to slowly lengthen the bones and for the legs to heal. One software engineer told GQ he spent the first three months after his surgery alone in his apartment and ordered delivery food during that time to go from 5-foot-6 to 5-foot-9.

The procedure costs between $70,000 and $150,000, depending on whether the patient wants to grow 3, 4, 5, or 6 inches, GQ said.

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


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KEYWORDS: kevindebiparshad; medicalmalpractice
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I'm a guy who is 5 foot five, and I've never had any desire to be taller.

The original GQ artilce, which is a lot longer, and goes into graphic detail about the surgery, can be read at

https://www.gq.com/story/leg-lengthening

1 posted on 09/16/2022 8:47:26 AM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

They did it in Gattaca


2 posted on 09/16/2022 8:50:15 AM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: grundle

You’ve got to be totally nuts to do something like that to yourself.


3 posted on 09/16/2022 8:50:50 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: grundle
They want to make their legs longer? Their legs? Them boys is abnormal.
4 posted on 09/16/2022 8:50:59 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: grundle

At first l thought this was the Babylon Bee but l guess not. If you are putting yourself through this your problem is not your height.


5 posted on 09/16/2022 8:51:59 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Billthedrill

If it’s women they are after, thinking being taller is the key they would be much more successful by extending other bodily extremities 3-6 inches into porn star range


6 posted on 09/16/2022 8:54:08 AM PDT by srmanuel (C)
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To: grundle
They should try heightening like Mickey.


7 posted on 09/16/2022 8:54:13 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: grundle
I am five foot and a fraction.

It would be nice to be taller.

But not at this kind of price.

Learn to be happy with who you are.

8 posted on 09/16/2022 8:55:20 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

You probably then have medical issues with your leg bones for life. Wouldn’t it be easier to wear lifts in your shoes?


9 posted on 09/16/2022 8:55:22 AM PDT by Cecily ( )
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To: grundle

In case anyone is wondering where this apparent fad came from, look no further than China, where young girls do this to ‘enhance their beauty’. Question is: can they meet the iPhone challenge is are they skinny enough to make their knees disappear under the phone.

China’s Dangerously Sexy Trends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NknjLHd2Pzk


11 posted on 09/16/2022 8:56:06 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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If you go on dating sites, you will see that nearly all women no matter how obese have 3 minimum standards for dating that they will not violate. Men must be 6 feet tall, have 6 figure incomes, and have 6 pack abs as well as some other 6s. They have the income, so they are getting the height, though I imagine it will be hard that get the abs while you are gibbling about. I wonder what the long term effects will be when they get old.


12 posted on 09/16/2022 8:57:18 AM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: grundle

extend people’s height by 3 to 6 inches , will they get a nose bleed


13 posted on 09/16/2022 8:58:28 AM PDT by butlerweave
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LOL, then there's the flip side....


14 posted on 09/16/2022 8:58:29 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: grundle

That’s crazy! Whatever happened to platform shoes?


15 posted on 09/16/2022 8:58:30 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: grundle

WHy not do it the old fashioned way?.....Old school is best..............

16 posted on 09/16/2022 8:58:47 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: grundle

I’m 6’ 2” and I wouldn’t want to be any taller. I have enough scars on my head from running into things. And sitting in coach would be even worse, since it’s the legs that are lengthened. No thanks.


17 posted on 09/16/2022 8:59:33 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (In time of peace, prepare for war.)
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To: grundle

From one of my Drill Sgts, “If your feet reach the ground, your legs aren’t too short.”


18 posted on 09/16/2022 8:59:41 AM PDT by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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To: grundle
For software engineers, they don’t seem very smart. There is a simpler solution, and it works very well.

Here I am just yesterday, on the way to work.


19 posted on 09/16/2022 9:00:38 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

20 posted on 09/16/2022 9:02:15 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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