After the news spread by some British researchers, according to which the women of short stature are more prone to develop liver diseases, perhaps some of them might be tempted to resort to surgery to increase his height. The dream, which so far perhaps many of them have tried to approach using heel and roll over, it would not seem so impossible now, given the advances in science and medicine in particular.

The expression of elongation of the limbs, traditionally used in cases of diseases such as congenital deformities or damage suffered as a result of accidents could be performed even for purely aesthetic reasons. But are we really sure you want to live my whole life with his legs bound together by a steel bar held by bolts just to earn a few inches more? The same Robert Rozbruch Director’s Institute for limb lengthening and reconstruction in New York is skeptical about the application of this type of intervention in the field of beauty and enhances its sensitive and difficult.

Rozbruch says that although 5-10% of patients undergoing this type of surgery do it for aesthetic reasons, it is an orthopedic surgery and not plastic surgery. E ‘therefore very different from a breast or a liposuction, and we should therefore be done only when there is a real need, in the case, for example, that short stature does not cause problems with physical and / or mentally to the patient. It is indeed quite an invasive, sensitive and painful issue that requires a long rehabilitation.

It should be remembered that the United States undergo this type of surgery is very painful for the wallet, the cost is estimated it at around $ 120,000, and the result certainly does not allow to reach a particularly high stature could donate only a few centimeters more.