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Ear surgery, or is done to set prominent ears closer to the
head or to reduce the size of large ears. Ear surgery can also replace
ears lost due to injury and to correct ear problems such as awkward
folding, unusual smallness or absence of natural folds and curves.
Ear Surgery operation usually takes two to three hours and requires the surgeon
to make a small incision behind the ear to expose ear cartilage. The
cartilage is then sculpted to bend the ear back toward the head.
Alternative techniques involve folding the cartilage back onto itself,
and allowing the ear to reshape itself without removal of the
cartilage. To pin the ears back, surgeons sew non-removable
stitches concealed behind the ear.
Ear surgery does not usually require an overnight hospital stay, and
patients can be up and around within a few hours after the procedure is
completed. Overall recovery time is about five days to seven days,
after which time normal activities may be resumed but taking care
to avoid bending their ears for about a month.
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