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  2. Distraction osteogenesis - Wikipedia

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    Distraction osteogenesis (DO) is used in orthopedic surgery, and oral and maxillofacial surgery to repair skeletal deformities and in reconstructive surgery. [1] [2] [3] It was originally used to treat problems like unequal leg length, but since the 1980s is most commonly used to treat issues like hemifacial microsomia, micrognathism (chin so small it causes health problems), craniofrontonasal ...

  3. Ilizarov apparatus - Wikipedia

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    The result of the Ilizarov surgical treatment is a limb that is much longer than before the medical treatment. In the case of lengthening a leg bone, an additional surgery will lengthen the Achilles tendon to accommodate the longer length of the treated bone. The therapeutic advantage of the Ilizarov treatment is that the patient can be ...

  4. Tissue expansion - Wikipedia

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    Other newer devices such as the orthofix and intramedullary skeletal kinetic distractor (ISKD) are also used for limb lengthening. It can add over 6 inches per bone, but is expensive, painful, and time-consuming (each procedure lasts around 8–12 months). [citation needed]

  5. Leg-lengthening surgery is gaining popularity among men ... - AOL

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    Leg lengthening surgery has become increasingly popular in the last five years, bringing one man from 5’7” to 5'10". ... “If all it is, is pain and money, alright,” he said.

  6. Limb lengthening surgery makes patients taller - AOL

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    Would you get this surgery to make yourself taller?

  7. Anthropometric cosmetology - Wikipedia

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    Operations for leg lengthening and other cosmetic corrections are recommended professionally for patients who are at least 17 years in age, after the complete growth zone closure occurs in the organism's body, thus minimizing future growth related problems. Anthropometric cosmetology can be used when the patient has: [2] X-shaped curvature of ...

  8. Taylor Spatial Frame - Wikipedia

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    A Taylor Spatial Frame on the left leg consisting of metal rings, pins and struts. The Taylor Spatial Frame (TSF) is an external fixator used by podiatric and orthopaedic surgeons to treat complex fractures [1] and bone deformities. The medical device shares a number of components and features of the Ilizarov apparatus.

  9. Leg-lengthening surgery is gaining popularity among men ... - AOL

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    Leg-lengthening is an intense and expensive process, but it has become more popular and accepted in the last five years, a doctor said. Leg-lengthening surgery is gaining popularity among men ...