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 ...

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 ...

Tissue expansion is a common technique used in reconstructive surgery. Surgeons slowly stretch nearby skin to grow extra ...

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 ...

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago is the first in the world to eliminate months of pain after surgical repair for microtia—a rare condition where a child is born with an ...

Di Wang, PhD, and Y. Shrike Zhang, PhD, of the Division of Engineering in the Mass General Brigham Department of Medicine, are the lead and senior authors of a paper published in Nature Biomedical ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are two things known to be true about body modifications: pain and permanence. They're part of what makes piercings and tattoos so exciting — and yet, the more you look into it, the less painful ...