Otoplasty: Surgical Procedure To Cure Ear Deformation

Otoplasty is a description of the surgical process that are envies to provide the auricle a more natural and an anatomic appearance to the congenitally prominent ears that are a cosmetic deformity. It can impact on the emotional as well as behavior of the child.

Prominent ears deformity do not impacts on child's image which is less than five to six years and surgery could be done after this age only. Before the surgery process the patients changes their hairstyle to camouflage their ears deformity. After the surgery the patients prefer wearing their hair short or combed back their hairs to feel more comfortable.

Otoplasty is used to indicate the correction of ears that exceeds to 20 mm and make an angle more than 35 degree from the occipital scalp. There are more than one malformed auricular subunits can be managed at the time of Otoplasty technique.

Otoplasty techniques demonstrates the deformity of ear along with the assessment and document lateralization of the auricle. This technique easily documents and demonstrate the asymmetry between the ears in their shape, size and position.

The best way to analyze the deformity of the ears is to take a preoperative photographs in standard frontal along with lateral and oblique positions that can easily used for the demonstration.

Otoplasty gives rise to unexpected and unrealistic contradictions in any patient. Therefore, it is suggested to patients to receive an appropriate preoperative counselling before going for the surgery procedure.

History tells that there may be some disorder rises sometime after the Otoplasty, possibly distorting other than this most of the time the surgery provides an excellent surgical results to the patients and they will be benefited.