Ten fingers. Ten toes. It’s what every parent expects to see when a child is born. But Andrew Bowers arrived missing fingers, thumb and palm bone on his left hand and was unable to use it.
After a number of false starts, the Bowers family found hope in a procedure called “distraction lengthening” – performed by Cleveland Clinic orthopaedic surgeon William Seitz, MD — that will literally grow new fingers.
Watch as Andrew sees his new fingers for the first time.
