Can Adults Regrow Severed Fingertips?
In recent years medical researchers discovered that small children and preteens can regrow severed fingertips (below the first joint) if the injured fingers are loosely bandaged without reconstructive surgery.
Adults, however, were out of luck. According to the Wall Street Journal there is now some hope for adults because of new medical research being done on Iraq War veterans at a military base in Texas.
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