Can't help with the costs, cause I haven't had to use it with my kids.. You can always have the consultation and see what they say, and not be locked into the surgery.


But I am another one with a broken bone not set correctly and giving me grief 20 yrs down the track. Mine is my finger, and it it was anything else, would be going nuts..

I do have a plate and screws in my arm from a clean break, and whilst I admit that I have pain with extreme weather changes, but there was more risk of my arm not setting correctly that wasn't worth the risk..