View the Hearing Center Information Microtia is an outer ear abnormality that’s present at birth. It can range from a small, barely noticeable abnormality to a large structural change in the outer ear ...

Usually, the procedure is started at the age of nine to ten years and by that age adult size of the ear is achieved. In cases of unilateral microtia, we take the image of a normal ear and ...

The procedure, the first of its kind, was done on a 20-year-old woman from Mexico with microtia, an ear deformity that happens when the external ear doesn’t develop properly. If the clinical ...

"Although ear reconstruction surgery for repairing microtia and anotia in both pediatric and adult cases has been practiced for a number of years, it still is a demanding procedure for both the ...

The procedure took place at the Microtia-Congenital Ear Deformity Institute in San Antonio, Texas, using technology developed by New York-based 3DBio Therapeutics. It marks the first of what the ...

The 20-year-old patient was born with the congenital disorder microtia, which caused a misshapen right ear. In March, the woman received a 3-D-printed, lab-grown implant of a right ear created ...