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I am 17 and need to increase my height is there any procedure?
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See your doctor: You may not get any taller if your growth plates are already closed. See your doctor and ask for bone age. If your bone age shows the growth plates are closed there is no other thing you can do to get taller.
Answered 8/17/2014
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