Tech workers pay $75,000 for leg lengthening surgery: GQ

• One surgeon told GQ that workers at Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta are paying $75,000 to be taller.
• A Las Vegas surgeon can lengthen patients’ legs through a painful process that lasts for months.
• He breaks the thigh bones and gets into nails that grow every day for three months.

Plastic surgeon in Las Vegas specializes in leg lengthening procedures that can increase people’s height by 3 to 6 inches, as new surgery GQ . Profile He said.

Many of his patients are technology professionals.

LimbplastX Institute was founded by Kevin Depiparshad in 2016, and the clinic’s business has boomed during the pandemic, he told GQ.

Here’s how it works: The doctor breaks the thigh bones or thigh bones and inserts metal nails into them that can be modified. GQ reported that the pins are stretched slightly every day for three months using a magnetic remote control.

It can take months for the bones to slowly lengthen and the legs to heal. One software engineer told GQ that he spent the first three months after surgery alone in his apartment and ordered food deliveries during that time from 5 feet to 6 feet to 9 feet.

GQ said the procedure costs between $70,000 and $150,000, depending on whether the patient wants to grow 3, 4, 5 or 6 inches.

The common denominator of Diepipsrashad’s client base is that they are wealthy, but they differ by profession: GQ reports that he has dealt with CEOs, representatives, and financial officers. A group of high-income tech workers – mostly men but some women – came to him for the procedure.

“I’m joking that I can open a tech company,” Deepparshad told GQ. “I have, like, 20 software engineers doing this procedure right now and they are here in Vegas. There was a girl yesterday from PayPal. I have patients from Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft. I have had many patients from Microsoft.”

The surgeon said he doesn’t recommend the procedure for athletes because it could reduce their ability, and several patients GQ spoke with said they didn’t tell people they had the procedure.

The stigmas around men’s plastic surgery have begun to fade in recent years. Cosmetic surgeries performed on men rose 325% from 1997 to 2015, according to American Society of Plastic Surgery.

And within Silicon Valley, plastic surgery has increasingly become a way for male tech workers to achieve their physical goals in recent years.

The Washington Post reported in January 2020 that Men have been turning to Botox, fillers, laser treatments, and techniques aimed at stimulating collagen trying to move forward in their career.