Whether it's from injury, infection or malfunctioning genes, millions of children suffer from bone deformities at any given time. To help remedy the situation, doctors often resort to the painful ...

A technique called distraction osteogenesis can create increased length of the upper jaw in patients with cleft lip and palate deformities, report researchers. In this technique, hardware is placed to ...

An orthopedic surgeon is creating the world's first implantation device that can lengthen the bones of young children internally. The inventor, a physician at Texas Tech University Health Sciences ...

Many people in the world believe that 'tall people are popular' and 'short people are socially disadvantaged,' and there are an increasing number of cases of people undergoing 'Ilizarov bone ...

An orthopedic surgeon is creating the world's first implantation device that can lengthen the bones of young children internally. The inventor expects the device will lead to fewer infections and less ...

If you were surprised to learn that the height-increasing surgery in Materialists was real, you’re not the only one. After the movie—which saw Pedro Pascal‘s character confess to getting ...

* 18-year-old Andrew Hirsch of Walnut Creek, California had more than an inch added to his femur; knows from experience how new device improves on old bone-lengthening techniques. STANFORD, ...

Growing up in Tiffanie DiDonato’s house, 'can’t' was considered a four-letter word that was not allowed in her vocabulary. “You could use any other word, (but) I wasn’t allowed to think I was ...

The implants developed by TPU scientists passed preclinical trials In the Ilizarov Orthopedic Center (Kurgan, Russia). These implants form part of the Ilizarov system variation applied for lengthening ...

Some men with the desire to be taller are turning to limb-lengthening surgeries to gain a few inches and escape the feeling of being judged by their physical statures. But the procedures are expensive ...

Dr. Emeka Nkenke of Erlangen University Hospital, Germany, and colleagues, report on the use of distraction osteogenesis to lengthen the maxilla (upper jaw) bone in patients with cleft lip and palate.