Femur or Tibia, which one is better for Stature Lengthening?

 

In this video, Dr. Donghoon Lee talks about the lengthening segments(femur or tibia), lengthening target, procedure, athletic abilities recovery, and so on.  

If you really care about the scars, lengthening the femur would be a better option since the scars for tibia are much more visible.

Also, in terms of recovery time(daily routine, athletic abilities), femur is faster than tibia since the callous grows faster.
For lengthening femur, PRECICE is the only option, but for tibia LON(lengthening over nail) is also producing good results.  Therefore, if you care about the cost for lengthening tibia, LON could be a suitable option.  

For the last point, it is important to have a balance between femur and tibia when lengthening.  Therefore, it is not a good idea to lengthen one segment excessively for both reasons proportion, and recovery.  

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