The FCSF is used in prosthetic clinics, hand therapy services, plastic and reconstructive surgery departments and anaplastology practices that restore the appearance of the hand. Its users are people who have lost a finger, in whole or in part, through a workplace or domestic injury, surgery or a congenital difference, and who want their hand to look complete again.
Patient experience is the reason clinicians reach for it. Finger loss is a small amputation in surgical terms and a large one socially, because hands are always in view. People often describe hiding the hand in a pocket, avoiding handshakes or keeping it out of photographs. A silicone finger made to the length of its neighbours and the shade of the surrounding skin addresses that directly, and at about 0.1 kg it sits on the hand without weighing it down.
Clinicians and prosthetic technicians handle the order. They record the size of the finger to be replaced and the wearer's skin colour, and Wonderful produces a single finger to that specification. At the fitting, the finger is placed over the residual digit and checked for length, alignment with the neighbouring fingers and colour in natural light.
Typical uses include restoring appearance after a traumatic finger amputation, completing the hand after surgical removal of part of a finger, and providing a finger for people born with a digit difference. Wearers often keep the finger for work, social occasions and photographs, the moments when the hand is most on show. In each case, the FCSF gives back the outline of one finger, matched to one person.