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Man goes under brutal three month leg-lengthening process to gain 3 inches

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Updated 14:34 17 Nov 2022 GMTPublished 14:25 17 Nov 2022 GMT

Man goes under brutal three month leg-lengthening process to gain 3 inches

68-year-old Roy Conn went from being 5ft 6" to 5ft 9"

Anish Vij

Anish Vij

A 68-year-old man grew three inches in height after undertaking a 'painful' surgical process. Here he is speaking of his astounding journey:

Roy Conn was able to go from 5ft 6" to 5ft 9" thanks to a complex bone-lengthening process that has been around since the 1950s.

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Unfortunately for any shorties out there, like myself, having both of your femurs broken is not just physically painful, it's also financially a massive slap in the face and can cost upwards of £130,000.

Speaking today on ITV's This Morning (17 November), hosts Holly and Phil questioned why a happily married man, fast approaching his 70s, would decided to go through with such a brutal process.

68-year-old Roy Conn went from being 5ft 6 to 5ft 9 thanks to the surgery.
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Roy said: “No, it wasn’t a major issue. It was just something I was always aware of since being young and, just like you said, I got the time in my life when I could afford it.

“And that’s it. I didn’t have a real complex about it, I just always felt like I was short.”

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He added: “My wife was more worried about it than I and she liked me the way I was, of course, why wouldn’t she.

“So, it was for me, it wasn’t for anyone else.”

Giving an insight into what the recovery was like, Roy said: “It was very tough at first, and, yeah, it was definitely quite painful.

“But you just get through [it].”

Leg lengthening expert Dr Kevin Debiparshad, who was Roy's surgeon, explained: “It will probably take an hour and a half to complete the procedure.

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“The patient then has to go through the lengthening process, which takes about a millimetre a day.

“It takes you about 25 days to get an inch and nearly two and half months, or so, to capture three inches of length, during the process.”

Roy admitted the surgery was 'quite painful', but 'you just get through it'.
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Since the pandemic, the surgery is more popular than ever before, the doctor claims.

“You know, I think it’s a combination of events, and in the pandemic, certainly I think, length itself to at home working," he said.

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"I think that if you’re planning to get taller, probably having a at-home job is probably useful, since you can go back to work within days of having the procedure and no one would know why.

“So you can go through the entire process and get to the end while still maintaining full time employment, so I think that’s one of the reasons.”

Featured Image Credit: ITV

Topics: ITV, This Morning, Health, UK News

Anish Vij
Anish Vij

Anish is a Journalist at LADbible Group and is a GG2 Young Journalist of the Year 2025. He has a Master's degree in Multimedia Journalism and a Bachelor's degree in International Business Management. Apart from that, his life revolves around the ‘Four F’s’ - family, friends, football and food. Email: [email protected]

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