BEIJING - China has banned the controversial practice of leg-lengthening, a cosmetic surgery procedure popular among young professionals who believe height will help them climb the career ladder, after a rash of botched operations has left patients disfigured.
Leg extension surgery is a procedure that looks like something out of the Middle Ages.
A doctor breaks the patient's legs and inserts steel pins into the bones, just below the knees.
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