Spock-like ear surgery can be painful and is irreversible. April 7, 2011— -- The photos are pointedly striking - young adults who have intentionally cut their ears to appear like those of ...

a congenital ear deformity. But getting to 10 with a deformed ear hardly bigger than a lobe could scar the young boy’s personality, his mother worried. One early incident confirmed her fears.

The procedure took place at the Microtia-Congenital Ear Deformity Institute in San Antonio, Texas, using technology developed by New York-based 3DBio Therapeutics. It marks the first of what the ...

The treatment has the potential to help patients with microtia, a congenital ear deformity where the external ear doesn't properly develop. It is hoped that this technology may one day replace the ...

New Hampshire’s Dr. Frederic Rueckert, who died on May 4, treated the rocker for a congenital ear deformity called Grade 3 Microtia back in 1982. Stanley was born with the condition, which left ...

A surgeon who specializes in treating rare ear deformities has successfully implanted a 3D-printed ear made of living tissue. The procedure, the first of its kind, was done on a 20-year-old woman ...