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Maxillofacial Surgery
The Ears
Built from Facial Aesthetics — Concepts and Clinical Diagnosis
What’s inside
10 sections · 45 slides
Overview
- What we are going to cover
Why the ears matter
An unremarkable feature until it is not
- The ear sits beside the face, not in it
- Usually you never notice an ear
- How much variation is acceptable
- From a misshapen ear to a happier child
- 97%
- Reading those numbers
The words on the ear
Every landmark is named after something you can picture
- Names borrowed from shells, boats and goats
- More names worth unpacking
Anatomy of the external ear
The part you can see, and the part that matters aesthetically
- Three ears inside one ear
- What the outer ear is made of
- The springy plate that gives the ear its shape
- A landscape of ridges and hollows
- The outer rim and the ridge inside it
- The bowl and the flaps guarding the canal
- The soft tag at the bottom
- Landmarks of the external ear
- The auricle at a glance
- Hanging lobes and attached lobes
- What people do to the lobe
Where the ear sits
Height on the face, and distance behind the brow
- Guidelines, not rules
- How high the ear should sit
- How far back the ear sits
Size and proportions
Height, width and the ear divided into thirds
- How big is a normal ear
- Width is about 60% of height
- The ear splits into three equal parts
- What lies in each third
- When to operate on a child's protruding ear
The tilt of the ear
The ear leans backwards, and it copies the nose
- The ear leans backwards
- The ear echoes the nose
- The rim seen from behind
Ears that stick out
Measuring lateral projection, and correcting it well
- Say prominent ears, nothing else
- The angle between ear and skull
- The same thing in millimetres
- The outer fifth of the face
- What good otoplasty aims at
- Two results, side by side
Left against right
Symmetry, the mirror-handle test and the x-ray trap
- Always compare the two ears
- A test with two mirror handles
- Why level ear canals matter for x-rays
Bringing it together
The numbers and the habits worth keeping
- Numbers worth remembering
- How to examine an ear
- Take-home points
- References
- Facial Aesthetics: Concepts and Clinical Diagnosis, 2nd Edition