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Over Complexity in Foot Ankle Surgery

31 Jan 2025 · 0 min

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Tiger Buford argues foot and ankle surgery has become over-instrumented like knee procedures. Paragon 28's Jones fracture screw line alone offers 120 different implant SKUs, creating inventory burden and carrying costs. Treece's system avoids this with a low-inventory, one-peel approach.

He says that foot and ankle surgery is over-instrumented. You know, we're turning it into total knees and there's no need to turn it into a total knee with, with all the guides.
It's, well, it's not just guides, it's inventory. Paragon 28 just launched a Jones fracture screw with 120 different implant SKUs. That is absurd. Can you imagine the carrying costs of launching that thing with caddies See, that's where Treece has a huge advantage.
They have very low inventory. Everything's usually one peel, right?