The Criterion
 

We represent a fraction of a single percentage of the global professionals with extensive experience with beak reconstruction. From softbills like curlews or toucans, to specialised techniques, products and applications for harder, more keratinised beaks like those of the macaws, to those in between like the corvids with heavy rostrum vasculature. Over 100 procedures have been performed with less than 5% failure rate. Many "techniques" popularised by less qualified individuals sporting things like 3D printed beaks, fail to share the short-term nature of their use, and the critical cost of failure to the bird. Namely, the compromising of the remaining portion of the injured beak when the prosthesis tears away, rendering the animal ineligible for further prosthesis, not to mention the likelihood of starvation/dehydration. Our techniques are permanent or semi-permanent and are applied in such a way as to be used heavily--often more strong than their natural beaks were before injury.

Many of the birds we treat with these methods can be released immediately afterward, as the missing piece has been fully restored and will simply grow off with time. Other, more profound or catastrophic injuries (see examples below) must be monitored for longer time periods before release, so that the prosthesis can be filed and reshaped as the natural beak grows out with time.