When my son was born he was born with a sixth toe. The pediatrician came in and said it was like a wart and she said it wouldn't be a big deal to suffocate it off. I figured if it was like a wart that it wouldn't be a big deal and told her to go ahead and suffocate it off. Then we came home from the hospital at the end of January when the Utah weather is very cold and my newborn baby wouldn't wear shoes or socks without screaming.
His big toe didn't go straight up like the other toes, but sprung out from the foot to where we would have to pull it in to put a sock on his foot and it was obviously painful for him. After about seven months we decided to go to a podiatrist to have his foot looked at. The podiatrist said that he would have to have surgery to fix his toe. They would have to go in and put little nicks in the nerve to help it come back to the right position and then put a pin down through his big toe.
I was disappointed that I had believed that it was as small as a wart and that we had caused this damage to his foot and the worst part was that as a nine month old baby he would have to have surgery. I was grateful that we had a podiatrist in our family and that I had confidence that he would be alright.
He is now nine years old and has had to go through two different surgeries to repair the damage that was caused by the suffocation of the "wart" when he was a baby. There is still additional damage to his foot and the big toe has quit growing. We now have to look at an additional podiatric surgery to help stimulate the bone to grow. We are hoping to hold out a little longer on the surgery so that he doesn't have to go through so many surgeries as a young child.
Since the podiatrist is family we have talked often about how expensive all of the surgeries have been over the years and all of the different things we have had to do to help his foot grow. He teases me that if I would have called him from the hospital instead of having the "wart" suffocated off that we probably wouldn't have to be going through all of these procedures. It is definitely best to work with a specialist right off the bat.
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(http://www.mfarestoration.com/) As a highly qualified, board-certified and licensed podiatric surgeon, Dr. Motran believes in educating each patient and beginning a relevant treatment program with the highest quality of care available.
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