- The procedure is called ‘Beverly Hills Aesthetic Foot Surgery,’ and it’s targeted at women who can’t wear tighter or smaller designer shoes because their toes are too long, or their feet are too wide.

- But actually, there aren’t any hard numbers out yet on how many women have gotten the surgery
How far will some women go to fit into high heels? The menu of services at Beverly Hills Aesthetic Foot Surgery in Studio City, Calif., provides a clue.

There’s the trademarked “Cinderella Procedure” — a preventive bunion correction that makes feet narrower. The clinic also offers the “Perfect 10! Aesthetic Toe Shortening” that invisibly trims toes that hang over the end of sandals or have to be crushed into tight shoes. There’s also “Foot-Tuck Fat Pad Augmentation,” in which fat from the patient’s abdomen is injected into the balls of her feet to provide extra cushioning for long days on high heels.

“It’s unrealistic to tell women not to wear high heels,” said the clinic’s founder, podiatrist Ali Sadrieh. “I came up with procedures that allow the women to function, pain-free, in the real world.”

Those are exactly kinds of cosmetic procedures that a big group of orthopedic foot surgeons blasted in a news release last month.

“Shortening a toe to get into a tight-fitting shoe should not be a standard of care in any physician’s office,” said Donald R. Bohay, an orthopedic surgeon in Grand Rapids, Mich., and co-chairman of public education for the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society.
The American Podiatric Medical Association, representing about 85 percent of the nation’s podiatrists, agrees.

“Our function is to relieve pain and correct deformities. We are not trained to allow women to fit into a narrower shoe,” said the group’s president, Kathleen Stone, a podiatrist in Glendale, Ariz.