What does bunionette surgery involve?
There are quite a number of procedures designed to address bunionette deformities, and each have different indications. For example, some procedures simply address an enlarged bony bump. Some simply address the crooked fifth toe. Some may be directed at a painful bursa. Other procedures address the misaligned bone behind the fifth toe, the fifth metatarsal. But in order to slow the return of the bunionette deformity, most procedures aim to address each of these conditions. Addressing the bump, the fifth toe, and the fifth metatarsal entails doing some work on the soft tissues surrounding the area, then cutting the fifth metatarsal bone, realigning it, then holding everything in place with screws, wires, plates or pins. How and where the fifth metatarsal would be cut is dependent upon each, individual case. If the bones are cut and realigned, how do you hold them together? Sometimes a screw is placed in the foot to hold a bone in a corrected position; other times a pin, wire or even a p
