In the past, we used to recommend waiting until the age of one year to perform a syndactyly, but now, with a combination of different techniques and a lot of follow-up, we have found that it is possible to perform the surgery at around six months of age. Why is that? Because we have found that babies who have surgery at six months recover better than those who are one year old or older. By recovery we don’t mean the ability of the baby to fight infection, but rather the speed at which the skin heals after the injury, which is better for babies operated on around six months of age. The younger the baby is, the smaller the wound on the relative edge of the finger, and because it’s a small finger, the smaller the wound will allow the skin to heal faster, so we think it’s an advantage to do the surgery at this time compared to an older child. Another consideration that we used to suggest that babies with syndactyly be operated on later is that we were afraid that they might have a creeping finger after the surgery. That is, after the operation, after separating the syndactyly, after a period of time, it slowly climbed up again, which is equivalent to the surgery of syndactyly recurring, and this recurrence of climbing up the skin is not a normal skin state, it is a scar, before we would think that doing the operation so early at six months will make the scar bigger and more likely to cause the finger to climb up and move? However, according to our years of experience and follow-up visits, we found that through our technical changes, the percentage of finger migration after the operation is similar for babies after six months and one year of age, in which case we can move the operation forward, so we now believe that it is possible to do the operation at about six months of age.