According to experts in our hospital, ear reconstruction is a very complicated operation, and the ear is composed of skin and cartilage scaffold, so ear reconstruction should first consider these two factors. At present, it is generally believed that autogenous costal cartilage is the best, and hairless skin in mastoid region is the best. According to the principle of how to use the skin of mastoid region, the operation can be divided into several methods.

The traditional method is Tanzer-Brent staging, and the ear reconstruction operation is completed in four stages:

1.

The earlobe moves horizontally backward.

2.

Incising costal cartilage to form ear bracket and implanting it under the skin of mastoid region.

3. Lift the auricle and free the skin graft on the wound.

4. Reconstruction of tragus and concha cavity. The whole process will take about six months to a year.

At present, we use a skin expander to slowly enlarge the hairless skin in the mastoid region, and then reconstruct the ear. Therefore, the operation is divided into two times, and the specific operation is as follows: the first time the dilator is placed, the operation is very small, and it is usually carried out under local anesthesia. It takes three weeks to take out the stitches and start water injection after one week. Then I rested for a month and had a second operation to rebuild my ear, which lasted about 10 days. The second operation will take about two months.

Tip: That's it.