“…Operative treatment is indicated if conservative treatment fails to relieve the pain, and it can be divided into joint-preserving and joint-reconstructing procedures 1 . These procedures include intra- or extra-articular dorsal closing-wedge osteotomy, osteochondral transplant, metatarsal shortening osteotomy, marrow stimulation, and micronized allograft cartilage matrix 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. Osteotomy improves pain and function in terms of shortening the metatarsal length and restoring the metatarsal head's sphericity and metatarsophalangeal joint congruency 6, 12, 13.…”