Why do I perform stature lengthening or cosmetic lengthening?
Why do we even go and take a normal person and lengthen their legs, put them through risk, spend a lot of money and time and why would a person go through this process?
This is a really important question because it speaks to the nature of the patient’s population I deal with when we’re doing stature lengthening surgery. It is true that society is biased towards taller people and it’s often an unconscious bias. We know that statistically, CEOs of companies, people that earn three-figure incomes, tend to be taller than the average. They also tend to speak with a voice that is a little bit lower in frequency than the average, which, fair or not, is the way the world tends to work.
A lot of my patients tell me when they walk into a room they sometimes fail to command the attention or the respect that they deserve and that is devastating for anybody but for a young man or woman who wants to build their career, command boardrooms and build a business it is really devastating to try and prove yourself every time you walk into a room.
What we want to achieve is that you walk into a room and you get noticed for the right reasons. You get noticed for the fact that you are well dressed, well presented, that you have done your homework on whatever the topic is that you are there to address. You do not get noticed for the fact that you appear short.
Now this is the mindset, this is the background of why we do the surgery, because it is fundamentally life changing. This surgery changes people’s lives in a fundamental way by not growing limbs, but actually growing minds. We are not growing your limb, we are growing your stature, your self image of yourself and the way you interact with the world. That is really the reason why I do this surgery.
It is controversial.
It is surgery that is often frowned upon by people and surgeons. But if it’s done properly and if it’s done safely, it is probably the most life-changing surgery that somebody can have because it fundamentally changes a person’s trajectory in life.
