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 ...

WEBVTT FOLLOW-UP IF THE 8 ON YOUR SIDE TEAM WE SHOWED YOU A YOUNG BOY FROM LEBANON COUNTY WHO EAR RECONSTRUCTION SURGERY AFTER BEING BORN WITHOUT A RIGHT EAR. DR. DAVID LEVER HAS DONE DOZENS THESE ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The 15-year-old was born with microtia, a congenital condition, and recently had life-changing ear reconstruction surgeries ...

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 ...

EL PASO, Texas -- Two years after losing her left ear in a car accident, 21-year-old Pvt. Shamika Burrage has a new ear grown inside her forearm from her own cartilage. "I was going to go with the ...