hi this is dr. Philip young thanks for
visiting our Channel and watching this
video today what we're going to talk about it
Macrotia and that's basically a big ear
and in this video what we're going to show
you is how we reduce the ear
hi this is dr. Philip young were
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video this video is about macrotia which
is a large ear Mac describes
something large and Mic describes
something small so there's microtia and
this macrotia today we're going to be
talking about macrotia
what is microtia well that's an ear
that anything bigger than sixty two
millimeters in this direction so 58
millimeter to 62 millimeters is the
normal size of the ear in this length
direction and that is the same as five
point eight centimeters 6.2 centimeters
so anything larger than 6.2
centimeters is considered macrotia, a
large ear. So this video's what we show
you today is the reduction of this
large ear using a really nice technique
where we excise basically this portion
of the ear and we make the incision
along the helical area another small
incision is located here so I wanted to
tell you a story about this person who
had macrotia his ears were about eight
centimeters they were quite big 8 and 8.2
centimeters so almost two centimeters
larger than a normal ear and he also
kind of had a smaller face so he was
really embarrassed about his ears
apparently he always wore long hair
to hide his ears
and in fact even his spouse had not seen
his ears for over 12 years his spouse
might I had a glimpse of it
this person was really careful not to show
his ears because he was so embarrassed and so
Macrotia can definitely impact someone's
life and I was really happy to make
his ears smaller anyways I hope you
enjoy this video it's a little graphic
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thanks
Here I am after we made the appropriate
markings and we have allowed the local
anesthesia to work which is about 10 to
15 minutes i'm showing here the
resection of the portion of the ear
that is causing the ear to look big
the incision is again hidden along the
inside of the ears helical rim as shown
I'm now releasing the ear to allow it to
take on the new shape carefully defining
the plane I'll then remove the redundant
excess portions of the ear to allow the ear
to be reduced in a smooth manner
Here I am closing the ear in multiple
layers
this ensures the best result with the
least amount of scarring
here we are showing the
before-and-afters of this patient only
two weeks after her procedure her ears
will look much better in the coming
weeks
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