If you or your child is not very happy with the natural shape of the ears, you can resort to plastic surgery to eliminate this problem. Most often using otoplasty eliminate droopy ears. Experts say that the best way to do this operation in age from four to fourteen there, but in reality, few parents agreed to send their child to the operation - not to mention the fact that not all of this enough money. Thus, the most common plastic ears do adults.

How to make plastic ears

With the development of medical plastic surgery is becoming easier - at least from the point of view of the patient: the operation takes relatively little time, and recovery after the operation takes place quickly enough.

There are several ways to make plastic ears. If you use one of them, a doctor removes part of the cartilage - the main structural element of the ear. In another embodiment, the cartilage is folded and crosslinked; third - is removed from the ear portion of the skin, rather than cartilage. Regardless of the method used, first, the doctor makes a small incision in the back of the ear, and then proceed to the necessary procedures. After the operation incision sutured place.

Preparation for surgery

First of all, the patient with the doctor discusses the details of the operation. The patient says about their expectations and preferences, and they, along with the doctor choose the best way to achieve the desired result. After surgery, a person needs to stay at home for at least one week. The patient should take care of this - to take leave from work, or to obtain permission for some time to work from home.

The operation lasts for two to three hours - the duration depends on the complexity of the operation in each particular case. In particularly difficult cases, the operation may take more than three hours - all these details the physician should discuss with his patient in advance.

In some cases, adult patients do plastic ears with a local anesthetic and sedation. If desired, the patient can ask for a full anesthesia. Babies before surgery for correcting the shape of the ears always make full anesthesia, to ensure that they could not move during operation.

If the operation will be carried out under general anesthesia, the patient can not eat and drink in the morning before surgery. Supper on the day before surgery is recommended very light food.

Going to the operation should wear loose, comfortable clothing. Do not wear T-shirts or jackets with tight collars. It would be the best clothes with buttons or zippers, which you do not have to shoot over his head. This is especially important for children.

Adult patients, in most cases, you can go home the day of surgery. Ask someone to take you home or call a taxi. Get behind the wheel after anesthesia can be dangerous. Children, as well as patients who required a fairly complex and lengthy surgery, doctors often recommend to spend at least one night in hospital.

Recovery after surgery

After surgery, the patient's head should remain bandaged for three days, or sometimes longer. Your doctor will tell you how long it will be possible to remove the bandage and how to cope with sleep and daily activities. In some cases, the bandage should be worn up to three weeks.

If the operation is successful, the recovery usually takes place quickly and without complications. At the site of incision and suture the scar will remain, however, over time it will become less noticeable.

Like any other surgery, otoplasty is associated with some risk. In rare cases, it can develop complications such as infection and blood clots. If after the operation you will have symptoms such as sudden fever, bleeding from the incision or inflammation, you should immediately contact a doctor.

In most cases, however, plastic ears passes without any problems, and patients are satisfied with the result.

  The problem of hair loss Hair loss - the distress signal   age faces a growing number of people: the partial or complete baldness Hair Loss - a rather delicate problem Or alopecia, is becoming a problem not only for men but also for women. To solve this problem helps the hair transplant - a procedure for transplantation of hair follicles on the scalp area in which there is baldness. Undamaged areas of the scalp where there is a large number of active hair follicles turn into so-called donor sites. In the majority of cases, a hair transplant using donor material from areas of the scalp of the patient - otherwise there is a risk of tissue rejection due to transplantation. This procedure is called autologous.

Types of Hair Transplant

Hair transplant - they are two completely different procedures: in addition to autologous transplantation, ie transplantation own hair, there is a procedure involving the use of third-party donor material, ie transplantation of artificial hair .  Transplantation of artificial hair includes a number of very small incision or puncture in the skin through which the implanted artificial hair .  The scalp artificial hair is held by a microscopic loops, which gradually grows connective tissue .  Artificial hair transplant results can be seen immediately, as carried out, in fact, not the hair follicle transplantation, and "finished", albeit artificial, hair .  Therefore, a patient just a few procedures can become the owner of a luxurious thick hair .  Perform artificial hair transplantation can be reused - as long as the patient is not satisfied with the results .

Disadvantages of artificial hair transplanting

No matter how attractive did not seem at first, this method of hair transplantation, it there are a few very tangible disadvantages. First of all, artificial hair transplant results in the need for constant and careful hair care: any procedures somehow affecting the hair structure - be it painting or perm - destroy the man-made fibers and immediately nullify all the results of a hair transplant. In addition, an important factor in the decision to transplant the artificial hair, it is the fact that the artificial hair does not grow - especially the lack of artificial hair transplant procedure is relevant for women.

At transplantation of artificial hair, there are many risks. Chief among them - is the ability of tissue rejection, even after a preliminary test on the biocompatibility of artificial materials and human skin there is no guarantee that the transplantation of artificial hair does not cause side effects. Negative reaction to the artificial hair transplantation leads to very unpleasant consequences: at the site of transplantation are observed festering formed scars, artificial hair as a result of rejection fall, and the whole process is accompanied by unbearable itching and other unpleasant sensations for the patient. It is for these reasons that today the transplantation of artificial hair is used infrequently.

Hair Transplantation

Unlike artificial hair transplantation, autologous transplantation involves the use of donor material of the patient .  There are two methods for performing hair transplants: autologous transplantation can be carried out by the local, spot transplant individual hair follicles (also called a seamless transfer of hair), and through the individual strips of skin transplants (grafts) with hair follicles .  In contrast, transplantation of artificial hair, natural hair transplantation requires a fairly long time for the hair started to grow - in a new location hair growth after transplant procedure begins about three to four months .  However, the growth rate of the hair depends on the method of performing hair transplantation: the spot transplant individual hair follicles, which is performed with minimal risk of injury of the skin, hair growth begins at the new location is much faster .

Tatiana Smirnova