“Will an otoplasty affect my ability to hear?”
I would like to have an otoplasty but I am afraid of it affecting my hearing. Will an otoplasty affect my ability to hear?
16 Answers
Otoplasty is an surgery to change the way the External ear appears on the head. It will not affect your hearing.
No, not at all. The external ear is not involved in the hearing process. This takes place in the ear canal and in the brain.
Otoplasty is a cosmetic procedure to decrease the projection of prominent ears. The surgery is performed on the outer portion of the ears and does not affect hearing.
Good luck.
Good luck.
Otoplasty should never affect hearing. In fact, I have never heard of this as a complication. The difficulty is creating symmetry and avoiding an ear that looks like an old telephone handset.
You can rest easy knowing that an otoplasty will not affect your hearing. This surgery only involves shaping, molding, or removing cartilage on the outer ear. Not the middle or inner ear, where hearing takes place.
The surgical reshaping of the external ear, or otoplasty, is not meant to affect hearing. In the immediate post-operative period, hearing may be muffled due to swelling about and within the ear canal; this is temporary and resolves within a few days after surgery.
No. It is strictly a cosmetic procedure.
It will not. This surgery is only to the outside structures and cartilage that shapes your ears.
No, not to any significant extent. Cupped ears catch sound coming from from a little better than when sound source is behind you.
Hi,
The surgery is done on the external ear. It does not affect the hearing at all.
Thanks.
The surgery is done on the external ear. It does not affect the hearing at all.
Thanks.
Changing the shape of an ear should not affect your hearing at all.
This is an easy answer. Absolutely not!!
Dr. Louis Mes
Dr. Louis Mes
This is a great question and good for you to think about this. When you are having cosmetic surgery around areas that serve a function (Such as ears, nose, mouth and eyes) it is always important to consider the effects of the surgery on those functions. You should always seek the advice of a surgeon experienced in surgery in those areas. Luckily, otoplasty (Surgery done to correct a protruded ear) done properly should in no way affect your hearing. The surgery will simply re-create the natural contour of your outer ear and reduced the protrusion of the ear. Your ear canal and vital ear structures that aid in hearing should remain undisturbed.
An otoplasty should have nothing to do with hearing. It just pins back your fly away ears.
William B. Rosenblatt, M.D.
William B. Rosenblatt, M.D.
It may, but an otolaryngologist would better educate you about that.
Possible minor change, but only if have pre-existing hearing loss
