Born with one ear, Sasha Gardner underwent rib cartilage ear reconstruction. Dec. 17. 2007 — -- At first glance it's nearly impossible to tell that British-born model and reality television ...

Surgeons from John Hopkins University grew an ear on a cancer survivor's forearm with cartilage from her rib cage in what’s been described as the most intricate ear reconstruction in the ...

It turns out that the cartilage inside your ears and nose is different from that found elsewhere in the body, with a fatty ...

Microtia patients can have new ears made from silicone or even rib grafts, where surgeons must scrape cartilage from a patient's rib cage and then carve it into the approximate shape of an ear ...

To successfully reconstruct a patient's lost ear, Doctors at William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso, Texas sculpted a new one from rib cartilage and implanted it under the tissues of the ...

Surgeons used rib cartilage to reconstruct a woman’s ear and part of her skull after cancer destroyed them. Sherrie Walter, 42, from Bel Air, Md., had basal cell carcinoma, an aggressive form of ...

For several years, Brenner said, her rib cage felt so tender she was unable to wear a bra. Prescription strength anti-inflammatory drugs enabled her to function. “I had to be very careful about ...

“I don’t like the idea of a celebrity getting it done, and then all the fans want ear pointing as a result,” Von Cyborg, a body-modification specialist who’s given elf ears to some 500 ...

Doctors were able to build an ear out the rib cage of an English model who was born with just a stump on the right side of her head, the Daily Mail reports.