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One toe is shorter than the other toes. Can I have surgery?

You don’t need to do it if it doesn’t affect your life and appearance too much

If you want to do it, you can also do corrective surgery

Generally, the surgery is performed 3 days after hospitalization. After that, you usually stay for another 3-5 days before you can be discharged and go home. For patients with high requirements or patients from other places, if you are worried, you can transfer to our branch and continue to apply the sling bottle until the wound sutures are removed and then return to your home. This period of time is about 10 days.

The so-called surgery means that the doctor completes the treatment for the patient through his hands. This is a manual operation, non-mechanized and automated, so it is risky, just like the manual operations of various craftsmen. Possible risks include loosening, infection, and breakage of the steel pins of the stent. Since the patient's metatarsal bones are short and thin, fractures, elongated osteogenesis imperfecta, etc. may occur during the operation.

The operation only takes 1-2 hours, but the postoperative treatment and extension will take at least 3 months. These tasks can be completed at home, so the patient does not have to be in the hospital. Stay for 3 months. In other words, most of the time, the patient needs to take care of and protect himself. The stent is exposed, which is very inconvenient, but it does not hurt, but he cannot walk. The doctor will teach the patient the method of prolongation, but they must strictly follow the doctor's instructions. If you don't try too fast, something will happen. The focus of care is on the needle eye of the external fixator. Keep it away from water. Apply a little alcohol to the needle eye regularly every day to prevent the stent from getting hung up when sleeping. You can wrap it with gauze and bandages.

Generally, the cost of extending one toe is about 15,000 to 20,000 yuan, and of course more for two feet, and so on.

The operation is not very painful and is a minor operation