Your surgeon
Op. Dr. Serdar Karaman
One surgeon plans your lengthening, performs your osteotomy, reads your weekly X-rays, and signs off on every milestone, from first consultation to final consolidation.
ORTHOPEDICS & TRAUMATOLOGY · ISTANBUL
- İnönü University Faculty of Medicine
- Istanbul Surgical Hospital
- English-speaking practice
Op. Dr. Serdar Karaman is an orthopedics and traumatology specialist practising in Istanbul. He trained at İnönü University Faculty of Medicine and completed his specialization in orthopedics and traumatology, building a practice centered on limb lengthening and deformity correction for international patients.
His broader surgical scope, arthroplasty (knee and hip replacement), hand surgery, sports surgery, and pediatric orthopedics, matters for lengthening patients: it means your surgeon manages the whole limb, from joint mechanics to soft tissue, not just the osteotomy.
Dr. Karaman performs cosmetic stature lengthening with the LON method and Precice 2 internal nails, alongside limb length discrepancy correction and axis correction for bow legs and knock knees.
How Dr. Karaman works
- Honest candidacy calls. If your X-rays or health profile make you a poor candidate, or your goal exceeds safe limits, you'll be told no, with the reasons.
- Personal continuity. The surgeon who consults you is the surgeon who operates and who reviews every weekly X-ray during distraction.
- Conservative rates. Lengthening runs at 1 mm/day and slows the moment nerves or joints protest. Centimeters are never prioritized over function.
- Written everything. Surgical plan, safe gain target, package inclusions, revision terms, and aftercare protocol, all in writing before you pay a deposit.
The team around your surgery
Limb lengthening succeeds or fails in the weeks after the operation. Around Dr. Karaman, Live Taller Now runs a dedicated international patient team: physiotherapists who see you daily through distraction, anesthesia and hospital staff at a licensed private hospital in Istanbul, and English-speaking patient coordinators reachable 24/7 on WhatsApp, from your first message to your follow-up X-rays back home.
Content you can trust
Every medical page on this site, the surgery guide, cost guide, and FAQ, is reviewed by Dr. Karaman's clinical team, with figures grounded in published orthopedic practice: 1 mm/day distraction, ~1 month of consolidation per centimeter, and hard caps of 8 cm (femur) and 7 cm (tibia) per segment.
Ask the surgeon, not a salesperson
Your free assessment includes a video consultation with the medical team, bring your hardest questions.