A young boy's wish to just get through a day without strange stares and ridicule is about to come true. In a small town in South Africa, Victor Nwadike was born without a fully-formed ear and little ...

The ear reconstruction is part of a clinical trial for patients with microtia, a rare congenital deformity where one or both outer ears are absent or underdeveloped In a "groundbreaking" surgery, ...

Congenital atresia ear reconstruction is a surgical procedure to create an ear canal in children born without one. The procedure aims to improve hearing and the appearance of the ear. Congenital ...

A surgery for reconstructing a patient’s ear with her own tissue using 3D printing technology was successfully completed by doctors in the US. The breakthrough surgery may lead to new ways to treat ...

MUKILTEO — Ears are a big deal, especially if you aren’t born with them. What’s up with that? Dr. Prabhat Bhama, a surgeon, and his wife, Trish, a nurse practitioner, are in Guatemala this week on a ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A 20-year-old woman born with microtia, a rare birth defect that causes the outer part of the ear to either not form or under-develop, received a 3D-printed ear transplant made ...

LEVITTOWN, NY (PIX11) — A 5-year-old Long Island boy born without a left ear r ecently underwent a unique ear reconstruction surgery using cadaver tissue. The technique used for Luca Vacchio was ...

According to the National Birth Defects Prevention Network, one in every 8,000 to 10,000 births in the United States result in one of two congenital malformations of the ear: microtia (the child is ...

Thanks to two novel tools, the traditionally difficult surgery to create a replacement ear from a patient's rib cartilage may soon be done faster, more simply and accurately. According to the National ...