How the model works for a clinician, the commercial case, the risk profile, and how to get started.
Patients who have lost a finger often ask their clinician whether anything can be done about the appearance of their hand. For most practices, the honest answer has long been "not really", because making a convincing prosthesis meant a lab, specialist materials and craft few clinics could carry. This guide explains how that has changed, and what adding a finger prosthesis service actually involves for a clinician.
You bring the clinical skill and the patient relationship; the maker carries the manufacturing, materials and quality control. You assess suitability, take the impression, measurements and colour match, and fit the finished device. BioDigit produces the prosthesis to your specification, quality-checks it, and supplies it to you. There is no lab to build and no stock to hold.
If you already see hand and upper-limb patients, finger prosthetics sit naturally alongside what you do. You are already trusted by these patients, already skilled in assessing and handling the hand, and already the person they ask. Adding this service extends your existing relationship rather than requiring a new specialism from scratch, the method is taught through structured training.
For a practice, this is a premium service line with an attractive risk profile:
The reason this works as a service rather than a gamble is the quality system behind it. Every device is quality-checked, backed by a delivery window and a published remake policy, and signed off by you before the patient sees it. That means you are never left holding a substandard device, and your patient's first experience always meets the standard, protecting your reputation, which is what matters most when you add anything new to a practice.
The path is straightforward: express interest, have your professional registration verified, complete the training that teaches the BioDigit method, and you are cleared to order and to be listed so patients can find you. The training is self-paced, and the materials, the Fitting Guide and Chairside Checklist, support you through your first cases. Support is closest exactly when you need it most, at the start.
Throughout, your registration and clinical judgement govern care. The training builds your proficiency in the product and method; it does not replace your scope of practice. You bring the judgement; the maker provides a dependable device and the method to use it well.
