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Volar plate arthroplasty and other described techniques prevail for the former injury, while the latter does not have any supportive literature on the exact method of management. We herein present a 20-year-old male with a severely comminuted head of proximal phalanx fracture with dislocation of the PIP joint, which was not reconstructable but was managed successfully with a novel technique of volar plate draping that resurfaced the raw phalangeal head. 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