Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Surgery For Ear Reconstruction

The appearance can be unbearable for people who was born with deformed ears or had an accident on the ears. For the child to born with a congenital defect ears, their families, their children have to face the problems related to the middle ear malformation. Sometimes parents think they do to some extent caused the defect or not this matter do something in the pregnancy. This ear defects, and can lead to ridicule all the children dig into his or her inner world. Moreover, these deficiencies can also lead to a wide range of hearing loss and to the child's learning ability, it is very difficult.

When an adult traumatic injuries, which has made them loose ears in whole or in part, they will also have to deal with sarcastic and teasing that is associated with it. In addition, the emotional damage, with the ear injury, it could be disastrous.

Want anyone to have defects or damage to the ears. As early as 600 BC, procedures, which has become known as the ear reconstruction is the first record from sushruta samhita. Later, in the 16th century, these ear surgery would be recorded again when Jiashimolei tagliocozzi for skin from the patient's arm to repair earlobe. Although these are relations between the earlobe proceedings until this point, in the mid-1990s to 1800 is a surgeon by the name of dieffenbach wrote a repot on how to rebuild the upper part of the ear, which contains a cartilage, which is very thin and flexible. Some people think that at this time, although that is not visible sine cartilage or skin offers a complete range of ear reconstruction is impossible. However, Gillies Avenue surgeons, they found that as early as 1920 the ribcage cartilage from the sternum can be grafted as a means of repairing ear malformation.

All of the time, the ears of the entire rehabilitation process has been continuously updated, along the side of the advent of new technology and available to the medical profession. Regardless of all these advances, for the reconstruction of a person's ear is not an easy task. Skin from a part of the body, there is no hair and at the same time, it must be very thin and flexible. In addition, work, and cartilage from the ribcage, although this is the closest to that of the ears, but still considered to be too thick. Combine, all this with the problems and create the three-dimensional shape and ear skin and cartilage, and then you have a very difficult operation.

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