Category: otoplasty | plastic surgery case study

Background: The treatment of the protruding ear is a common and historic plastic surgery procedure. While various techniques exist to pull back the concha cartilage and /or create a more defined anti helical fold to reduce the auriculocephalic angle their effects are primarily at the middle third of the ear. In such setback otoplasties the upper third Read More…

Background: Ons of then most common aesthetic ear procedures is a setback otoplasty to reduce protruding ears. While a wide variety of techniques have been described to do this operation the fundamental concept is that the ear is set back closer to the side of the head by either creating or increasing the antihelical fold Read More…

Background:  Setback otoplasty is one of the most common aesthetic ear surgeries with a wide variety of technique to accomplish it. But regardless of the techniques used sutures are involved. They either create the desired ear shape change or, at the very least, help hold it into its new position as it heals. These sutures Read More…

Background: The most common form of an aesthetic otoplasty is to setback protruding ears. This has been done for over a century using a large number of different techniques that focus on reshaping the ear cartilage through bending/scoring and suture fixation. Most of these different setback otoplasty techniques are done through open exposure with an Read More…

Background: The ear is the most complex topographic feature of the face. (even though it is technically not on the face. It is a seemingly convoluted mix of ridges and valleys that have different variations amongst people which makes the ear almost as person specific as a fingerprint. The most visually evident feature of the Read More…