Patient Info
- Gender:
- Female
- Age:
- 3 weeks old
- Surgeon:
- Dr. Inessa Fishman
Description
This 3-week-old girl was brought in by her mother with concerns of ear deformity, with a “scrunched up ear” on her left side. Her ear showed a constricted ear deformity, without a well-developed depression or space between the outer helix and inner, Y-shaped antihelix. Our Facial Plastic Surgeon Dr. Inessa Fishman diagnosed with baby with congenital ear deformity, and treated her with 6 weeks of Earwell non-surgical newborn ear correction. The patient is shown with a 100% correction and a beautiful outcome after completing treatment. This non-invasive treatment allows for progressive and painless reshaping or molding of the ear, reforming the ear cartilage permanently.
Earwell newborn ear correction is a highly effective treatment which allows Dr. Fishman to correct a large number of newborn ear deformities. It works to correct congenital ear deformities in 90% of cases, and allows patients to avoid corrective otoplasty surgery. The non-surgical newborn correction treatment is most effective if started within the first few weeks of life, as the baby’s ear cartilage is most pliable during this time. As the baby grows to 6-8 weeks old, the maternal estrogens which make ear cartilage soft and moldable gradually decrease, and the chance of successful ear correction becomes lower.