Month: May 2017

Dear patients, families and other members of the wonderful atresia/microtia group,   I would like to introduce myself. My name is Dr. Youssef Tahiri. I am a board-certified pediatric plastic and craniofacial surgeon with a special interest in Microtia reconstruction. In brief, after I graduated from McGill Medical School, in Montreal, Canada, I completed my…

Patients with Microtia can present with other facial deformities including cheek hypoplasia and asymmetry, jaw deformity or hypoplasia, orbital deformity and overall facial asymmetry. Sometimes, the reconstruction of the ear does not completely correct facial balance and the patient needs fat grafting. Fat grafting involves harvesting fat from the patient central abdominal are or inner…