Patient's question:
How is ear malformation treated?Doctor's answer:
Congenital ear deformity hospitals treat full ear reconstruction surgery with two methods: staged surgery and one-stage surgery. The traditional staged surgery is a classic surgical method, generally including three steps. The first surgery involves implanting an auricular framework. First, a transparent adhesive sheet is used to take a sample of the size of the normal contralateral ear. Then, a piece of costal cartilage is harvested from the 7th to 9th costal cartilage junction on the right rib of the patient. The doctor carefully carves the framework according to the sampled shape, and then implants the framework into the pre-designed skin flap through the ear. Three months later, the second step of auricular shaping surgery is performed. This stage involves lifting the skin flap covering the cartilage framework forward and grafting a medium-thickness or full-thickness skin graft on the back.