Your surgery is performed under general anaesthesia.

Cosmetic ear surgery involves surgically removing excess skin and cartilage to reshape and resize the ears. Incisions may be made in the natural creases of your ears to do this. If lobe repair is performed, excess skin may be removed and any tears or holes will be sutured close.

Pinnaplasty, or ear pinning surgery, involves shifting the ears back to their proper position. Dr. Fialkov accomplishes this by creating a small incision behind the ear that allows him to see and manipulate the cartilage folds. From there he is able to either remove or restructure the cartilage. Depending on the approach taken, the ears will be improved by using either internal sutures that change the contour of the ears and bring them against the side of the head or by weakening the cartilage so it can be reshaped. In most cases, the restructured cartilage is kept in its modified place with internal sutures. Once this is done, the operating site is closed with an organic glue or tiny dissolvable stitches. A tiny, hard-to-see scar results.