You can expect some swelling, soreness, and tenderness after ear pinning surgery. These effects gradually fade as your ears heal.
bringing The Ears Into Balance
Otoplasty, or ear reshaping surgery, improves the size, position, or prominence of the ears. This procedure can help create better facial balance and often provides lasting confidence for both children and adults.
What It Treats:
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Abnormal ear shape
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Ear injury
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Structural ear issue from birth
Otoplasty Overview
Otoplasty reshapes the ears to improve position, proportion, and facial balance.
The Ideal
Candidate
Otoplasty may be right for children over 5 and adults who want to improve the size, shape, or position of the ears.
Things to
Consider
Good candidates are in good health, have stable ear cartilage, and can stop nicotine, cannabinoids, and ADHD medication before and after surgery.
What to Expect
Consultation
Dr. Spiro evaluates your ears, reviews your medical history, and discusses your goals for surgery.
Planning
He plans your ear pinning surgery around the shape, size, position, and underlying structure of your ears.
Pre-Operation
You may need blood work, drug testing, hematology clearance, and temporary medication changes to prepare for surgery.
Surgery
Dr. Spiro reshapes and repositions your ears, creating incisions with artistic precision to ensure balanced contours.
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Explore real patient outcomes where surgical precision and artistic perspective come together to create results that feel natural, balanced, and uniquely personal.
Where Your Vision Takes Shape
Discover a personalized plan built around your features, goals, and long-term outcomes. Your consultation is a focused, one-on-one conversation designed to bring clarity, guide decisions, and outline the most appropriate approach for you.
It’s important to wear dressings to protect your ears during the healing process to help them maintain their new position.
Most patients can return to light activity within several days, but you should avoid pressure on the ears and strenuous activity until Dr. Spiro provides clearance.
When Dr. Spiro advises it’s safe to remove your dressings, you’ll notice a change in ear position right away. The final shape becomes more refined as any lingering swelling fades.
Ear pinning can create long-lasting refinement in the form and structure of the ears, providing elegant results.
The Foundation of Your Journey
Good outcomes don’t happen by chance—they’re built with purpose.
Frequently Asked Questions
Following your procedure, Dr. Spiro wraps dressings around your ears. It’s important you keep this dressing in place until he advises you to remove them. These bandages help support and shape the new structures of your ear, and you should not take them off early.
During the recovery process, Dr. Spiro generally recommends that you avoid prolonged sunlight exposure, excessive force, or rubbing or scratching the ear area. He also gives you specific post-operative instructions to follow, including:
- How to take care of your ears following surgery
- Medications to apply or take orally to aid healing and reduce the risk of infection
- When to return to normal activities
- When to take your dressing off
- When to schedule a follow-up appointment
Your recovery from ear pinning in New Jersey can take up to 6 weeks. However, otoplasty results are almost immediate when you remove your bandages, revealing a new and natural-looking ear shape.
Many of our patients have ear pinning as young as 5 years old. Once the ears have developed enough for correction and the cartilage is stable enough for reshaping, Dr. Spiro can safely perform the procedure. Children, teens, and adults can all be good candidates for ear pinning in New Jersey at Spiro Plastic Surgery.
The cost of ear pinning depends on the details of your surgical plan, including the complexity of the correction. Because every patient’s anatomy and goals are different, pricing can vary. The best way to get accurate cost information is to contact our office for a consultation with Dr. Spiro, who can evaluate your ears and recommend the right approach for you.
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