Información del Paciente
- Género:
- Femenino
- Edad:
- 32 años
- Cirujano:
- Dra. Inessa Fishman
Descripción
This 32-year-old woman came to our practice interested in revision otoplasty. She was bothered by the prominence of her right and left earlobes and the pointy outline of the right upper ear. She reported an initial bilateral/ both-sided otoplasty at age 8 years old, at a California practice. She “hated how overly plastered” the ears looked after surgery, and underwent bilateral otoplasty revision with another surgeon in Atlanta many years later; this procedure made the ears more prominent on both sides, but added earlobe asymmetry and prominence on the right. She underwent another revision focusing on earlobes only in 2024, but didn’t feel this made a notable difference in the earlobe appearance.
Our Facial Plastic Surgeon Dr. Inessa Fishman treated this young woman with revision otoplasty, or surgical ear-shaping, to contour the ears and bring the overly prominent lower portions of the ears closer to her head. This patent’s otoplasty surgery involved removing previously placed silicone grafting from under the ear cartilage; contouring the overly prominent earlobes with reshaping of the lowest-most part of the helical rim; and excising a small piece of excess cartilage at the right upper ear. Our patient is shown 1 week after her surgery, and has a beautiful treatment outcome, with which she is already thrilled; due to the highly visible nature of her job, our patient did not feel comfortable sharing photos of her face, but wanted to share the ear-shaping results she had been seeking for years. Her ears will continue to “depuff” and become less red as swelling and bruising resolves.
Si bien los niños tratados con otoplastia obtienen mejores resultados con anestesia general (o estando dormidos en el quirófano), la mayoría de los adultos pueden someterse a la cirugía de otoplastia con la ayuda de medicamentos relajantes por vía oral, gas hilarante y medicamentos anestésicos inyectados. Esta paciente tuvo su cirugía de otoplastia mientras estaba despierta y relajada con medicamentos relajantes por vía oral y gas de la risa en la comodidad de nuestra lujosa clínica, y tuvo una gran y cómoda experiencia.