Otoplasty: techniques, results and complications-a review

LAVY, J.
STEARNS, M.

ENT, Head and Neck Surgery Department, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK

Accepted for publication 16 May 1997

Correspondence: Mr Jeremy Lavy, ENT, Head and Neck Surgery Department, Royal Free Hospital, Pond Street, London NW3 2QG, UK.

Clinical Otolaryngology & Allied Sciences 22(5):p 390-393, October 1997.

Surgery for the correction of ear deformities was first recorded in 1848 when Dieffenbach described techniques for repairing microtic and traumatized ears. However, surgery for the prominent ear was first mentioned in 1881 when Ely outlined his technique of a full thickness wedge excision of the auricle. In 1910 Lucket recorded the absence of a well-defined anti-helical fold in prominent ears. Since then there have been many descriptions of techniques of otoplasty of varying complexity.