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5-year-old boy with bilateral grade 3 microtia/atresiaResult is 3 years after the left ear reconstruction and Osia implanted hearing system.Result is 2.5 years after the right ear reconstruction and Osia implanted hearing system. The patient developed some thickened scarring about a year after the surgeries that didn’t respond to steroid treatment, so he had a […]

14-year-old boy with right grade 3 microtia/atresiaResult shown is almost two years after his 1st stage surgery and immediately before a small revision surgery. Back To Gallery 14-year-old boy with right grade 3 microtia/atresia.Result shown is almost two years after his 1st stage surgery and immediately before I performed a small revision surgery. Back To

4-year-old boy with bilateral grade 3 microtia/atresia who underwent bilateral atresia repair prior to microtia ear reconstruction Result is 2.5 years after the right ear reconstruction surgery.Result is 2 years after the left ear reconstruction surgery. The atresia repair makes the ear reconstruction surgery more difficult since a large part of the implant must be carved

5-year-old boy with right grade 3 microtia/atresiaResult is 1 year 9 months after surgery. Patient has “grown into” his ear implant so now both ears appear similar in size. Back To Gallery 5-year-old boy with right grade 3 microtia/atresia. Result is 1 year 9 months after surgery, so he has now “grown into” his ear

7-year-old girl with bilateral grade 3 microtia/atresia and Treacher Collins Syndrome (TCS)Patients with TCS can have challenging anatomy, so we often delay the surgery until they are 7 years old and do not implant the Osia hearing system at the same time as the ear reconstruction. The patient had a total of 3 surgeries: a

7-year-old girl with right grade 3 microtia/atresiaResult is 1.5 years after her first surgery and 9 months after her second stage surgery (the Osia hearing system could not be implanted at the same time as the ear reconstruction due to flap anatomy restrictions, so the Osia was implanted during a 2nd stage surgery). Back To

4-year-old boy with right grade 3 microtia/atresiaResult is 1.5 years after one surgery. Back To Gallery 4-year-old boy with right grade 3 microtia/atresia.Result is 1.5 years after one surgery.    Back To Gallery

4-year-old girl with right grade 2 microtia/atresiaAlthough she is “grade 2,” she does not have the typical tragus and bowl seen with most grade 2 patients. Result is 2 years after one surgery. Back To Gallery 4-year-old girl with right grade 2 microtia/atresia. Although she is “grade 2,” she does not have the typical tragus

9-year-old boy with right grade 3 microtia/atresiaThe Osia hearing system was implanted at the same time as the ear reconstruction. Result is 2 years after one surgery. Back To Gallery 9-year-old boy with right grade 3 microtia/atresia. We did the ear reconstruction at the same time as the Osia bone conduction hearing implant. Result is