{"id":39690,"date":"2021-03-16T11:28:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T10:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.yuveo.eu\/lexikon\/creation-of-protruding-ears-details\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T14:00:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T12:00:50","slug":"creation-of-protruding-ears-details","status":"publish","type":"encyclopedia","link":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/lexikon\/creation-of-protruding-ears-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Creation of protruding ears &#8211; Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<strong> creation of prominent ears<\/strong> requires comprehensive information before the operation. You can obtain an overview of this from us on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/op\/head\/ear-correction\/\">Ear correction<\/a> page. <\/p>\n<p>There are a large number of different ways to correct ears surgically. You can find more details in the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/lexikon\/ear-correction-methods-in-duesseldorf\/\">Ear correction methods<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>It is also possible to correct protruding ears <strong>without<\/strong> <strong>operating on<\/strong> them. This can be done on <strong>babies<\/strong> shortly after birth while the cartilage is still malleable. <\/p>\n<h2>Thread technique for protruding ears<\/h2>\n<p>There are techniques for operating on prominent ears that require very small or almost no incisions. These are often referred to as <strong>suture methods<\/strong>, although sutures are used in all techniques. You can read more information under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/lexikon\/thread-technique-for-ear-placement\/\">Ear correction with the suture method<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Occasionally, the phenomenon is also associated with so-called macrotia (ears that are too large). If desired, this malformation can be corrected as part of the operation. You can find more information on this special topic in the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/lexikon\/ear-reduction\/\">Ear reduction<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>If the prominent ears are also combined with a malformation of the <strong>earlobes<\/strong>, an additional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/lexikon\/earlobe-correction\/\">earlobe correction<\/a> can be performed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plastic Surgery &#8211; Grabb &amp; Smith &#8211; Lippinkott Williams &amp; Wilkins &#8211; Philadelphia USA &#8211; 2007<\/li>\n<li>Plastic surgery &#8211; Krupp &#8211; Ecomed &#8211; 2008 &#8211; (ring binder)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The creation of prominent ears requires comprehensive information before the operation. You can obtain an overview of this from us on the Ear correction page. There are a large number of different ways to correct ears surgically. You can find more details in the article Ear correction methods. It is also possible to correct protruding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","encyclopedia-tag":[72,185,76],"class_list":["post-39690","encyclopedia","type-encyclopedia","status-publish","hentry","encyclopedia-tag-abstehend","encyclopedia-tag-abstehohren","encyclopedia-tag-ohren"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/39690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/encyclopedia"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"encyclopedia-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia-tag?post=39690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}