Patient Info
- Gender:
- Male
- Age:
- 6 weeks old
- Surgeon:
- Dr. Inessa Fishman
Description
This 6-week-old boy was brought in by his mother with concerns of misshapen ears, which had not improved after birth. His ears looked “scrunched up” and showed a constricted ear deformity on both sides; in this deformity, the ear looks “pinched together” and there is no properly formed depression between the outer curved helix and inner Y-shaped antihelix of the ear. Our Facial Plastic Surgeon Dr. Inessa Fishman diagnosed with baby with congenital ear deformity, and treated him with 4 weeks of non-surgical newborn ear correction. This non-invasive treatment allows for gentle reshaping or molding of the external ear structures, reforming the cartilage of the ear in a permanent and painless way.
Earwell newborn ear correction is a highly effective treatment which allows Dr. Fishman to correct a large number of newborn ear deformities. This treatment is most effective if started within the first 2-3 weeks of life, as the baby’s ear cartilage is most pliable during this time; maternal estrogen level are high within the baby’s system at this time, and this contributes to the soft pliability of the ear cartilage, making non-surgical correction possible.