Month: February 2017

A cranial reshaping surgery, also called cranioplasty, is a surgery designed to correct skull / cranium deformities. Those deformities can be congenital, meaning the patient is born with the cranial deformity, or could be acquired, meaning the skull anomaly due to a trauma, a surgery, an infection or other causes. Congenital cranial deformities can be…

I am often asked the question: what does the SUPOR™ ear reconstruction for Microtia look like? Is it swollen? Does it look like an ear initially? This question is very legitimate since the parents and patients only see the reconstructed ear at the 2-week post-operative visit when we remove the protective mold applied at the…

Microtia is accompanied by congenital absence or stenosis of the external auditory canal with variable middle ear anomalies this causes a significant conductive hearing loss (1-2). Since microtia patients usually have a normal cochlea, they are not deaf, but have normal bone conduction hearing. Normal air conduction gives a hearing threshold of 15 to 20…