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[wazza]

 With the Precise 2 and other advancement in safer internal ll system, i wonder what is the future of ll. The price of internal are extreme for a cosmetic procedure, but i think in a couple of years, we could see a jump in the number of men doing these procedures as heightism becomes ever more rampant in our image obsessed society. i mean, there are twitter hacrapags going viral right amongst young women now about men who are 6 foot and over, some even demanding 6 foot 1 as the cuttoff and belittling "manlets". And as a bodybuilder aswell(compensating, i know), i am a member of a popular site called bodybuilding.com and there are so many threads on limb lengthening , men giving who are my height (5 foot 9) getting fed up off women who are increasingly becoming picky about height. I could see with generation Y men or generation Metrosexual, who are alot more image conscience than there older counter part and who are open to bettering themselves through cosmetic procedures/steroids(its more common than you think)/manscaping , Limb lengthening could become as mainstream as a breast implants Could a higher interest from younger men in limb lengthening drive surgeons to lower their fees to capture this restless market.

[KiloKAHN]

One doctor I spoke to said we are already at the point where very few surgeons can do this safely and that once some retire there will be hardly anyone qualified to do this cosmetically. This is because barely anyone wants to take the time to master Ilizarov. I don't see an influx happening because of cosmetic reasons as doctors make less money in cosmetic cases than reconstruction cases. And if average surgeons keep harming people through cosmetic lengthening I see it being banned outright by countries instead of becoming a more routine procedure.

[GeTs]

Tbh I don't see it happening, I mean its not like a breast implant , this surgery scares so many people just by looking at it, only the desperate people like us will do LL. Just imagine a guy tells you that there s a surgery that adds 5-10 cm to Your height and breaks Your bone in half plus costs a lot, u'd think hes crazy and it will look scarry from outside.

[Wannabegiant]

LL likely wont get cheaper, but eventually (well like 30 years or so) some other method of height increase will probably be available or at least in the testing stages, and while it will be more expensive than current LL, it is probably easier to do and master compared to Ilizarov and other current methods. So if a new safe procedure is available i could see that price dropping as there would be more people willing to go through with it. But its so far into the future that its not an option for people around their 20s who want to be taller asap.

[tx1111]

Hope it stays exclusive for anyone that looks for it, researches and comes up with a plan or funds. Wether it gets expensive or not, anyone who us insecure about height will gp for it anyways.

[YellowSpike]

LL becoming more "mainstream" may be a double-edged sword. If we talk about a typical product life-cycle, it goes something like this: 1. Infancy 2. Growth 3. Maturity 4. Decline. If I had to guess, I would say that cosmetic LL is probably somewhere late in infancy stage, if not early growth stage. It's a little more well-known in recent years, but it's the most extreme form of plastic surgery out there, and many are immediately scared off by it (and its price).

If more doctors start (safely) practicing cosmetic LL (especially in the USA), then perhaps prices will drop. However, I think we can all say that we will be slitting our wrists the day that 6'8" is the new 6'2". We don't want a lot of guys doing this!

[KiloKAHN]

One of the surgeons here thinks the future of CLL won't rapidly expand, and if it does, it won't be a good thing. He said joint replacement surgeons make a lot more money and constantly have patients whereas with Ilizarov, you need an added 5 or 6 years for specialized training on top of the schooling you already need for orthopedics, and you won't get nearly as many patients as other orthos, such as joint replacement surgeons, so it will take a lot longer to make good money. Even with a rise in CLL interest among the general public it likely won't cause much of an increase in surgeons getting specialty training for Ilizarov because other fields of orthopedics still generate more money and the money gets made more quickly. If there's a CLL trend, he said what will likely happen is orthos without the specialty Ilizarov training may hop on the bandwagon and perform CLL. They will know the basics of distraction osteogenesis and how to put on a frame because most orthos learn it to treat fractures, but they will not have learned all the intricacies of Ilizarov that you get with specialist training. They may get more experience in CLL by getting more patients but if they do it wrong from the beginning they will just keep doing it wrong on a greater number of patients. This will just result in more people getting lifelong complications. That's why he thinks China's strict regulations for who is allowed to perform CLL in the country is a good thing.

Essentially you can make CLL more affordable or available through advertisements, but the advanced training required for Ilizarov will always be there and you can't suddenly increase the amount of surgeons who can do this without permanently crippling or deforming you. It's the reason why promoting CLL is a flawed concept from the start. We've all seen what happens when you go to joint replacement surgeons for CLL.

[Medium Drink Of Water]

Even seven years ago people were talking about this happening.  I think the surgery is just too extreme to become mainstream.  The cost of LL won't go down unless the cost of all medical treatment goes down, since the same things keeping LL's price high are what's keeping the cost of all medical treatment high.