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The new thumb — reconstructed from the index finger — looks like a thumb and also functions like one. “We decided to reconstruct the thumb from Ayushi’s index finger using a procedure called as pollicisation. She suffered from a rare condition called radial club hand with hypoplastic thumb that affects about one in every one lakh births. At this age, the adaptability of the brain to the newly reconstructed thumb is optimum. He said the doctors had to ensure that the recreated thumb developed normally so that Ayushi would not be stuck with a baby-sized thumb..