This beautification surgery, which gives natural results, has no functional role (hearing), but has a role of correcting ear abnormalities by remodeling the cartilage of the pinna of the ear.
This intervention is most often bilateral, but can also be unilateral when only one of the ears is affected, inducing a troublesome asymmetry.
It is perfectly possible to have an otoplasty in adolescence or adulthood.
A strong demand in children triggers the intervention. Motivation and psychological pain resulting from school mockery may justify intervention.
Our preferences: protruding ears
Surgery repairs abnormalities in the atrial cartilage by shaping it, repositioning it and possibly reducing it.
The indication of an otoplasty can arise from the age of 7 years, age when the child can consider his ears as unsightly and fear the mockery of other children. The growth of the ear must be sufficient for the correction to be lasting.
Protruding ears often provoke teasing from others, a social embarrassment that can lead to withdrawing into oneself or reducing social contact.
Alternatives : la correction des oreilles
Cosmetic ear surgery also includes earlobe correction when the earlobes are very large or deformed, or even severed following an accident (pulling an earring).
The lobe is the lower part of the auricle.
earlobe surgery is cosmetic and restorative surgery that involves:
- People who are embarrassed by the appearance of their earlobes (too large or misshapen, or who have experienced trauma such as a torn earlobe).
- Also people who have been able to wear retractors or wideners and who wish to regain normal-sized lobes.
This operation takes place under local anesthesia on an outpatient basis.
