It's a $75,000 operation.
A growing number of shorter men are going to extremes to add a few inches. NBC News reports that leg-lengthening surgery—in which a metal rod is inserted in the thigh bone and then stretched by remote control over the course of months—is gaining in popularity.
“I even have 60-, 65-year-old guys that have come to me to undergo the procedure because it just doesn’t stop,” Dr. Shahab Mahboubian, a surgeon at the Height Lengthening Institute in Burbank, California, said of the $75,000 operation. “The ‘short' jokes keep going on and they feel inferior,” said the surgeon, who expects to more than double the number of operations he does this year.
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