• Will an otoplasty affect my ability to hear?

I would like to have an otoplasty but I am afraid of it affecting my hearing. Will an otoplasty affect my ability to hear?

16 Answers

  • Ear, Nose and Throat Doctor (ENT)
  • Calhoun, GA

Otoplasty is an surgery to change the way the External ear appears on the head. It will not affect your hearing.

  • Plastic Surgeon
  • White Plains, NY

No, not at all. The external ear is not involved in the hearing process. This takes place in the ear canal and in the brain.

  • Plastic Surgeon | Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
  • New York, NY

Otoplasty is a cosmetic procedure to decrease the projection of prominent ears. The surgery is performed on the outer portion of the ears and does not affect hearing.
Good luck.

  • Plastic Surgeon
  • Roslyn Heights, New York

Otoplasty should never affect hearing. In fact, I have never heard of this as a complication. The difficulty is creating symmetry and avoiding an ear that looks like an old telephone handset.

  • Audiologist
  • LOS ANGELES, CA

You can rest easy knowing that an otoplasty will not affect your hearing. This surgery only involves shaping, molding, or removing cartilage on the outer ear. Not the middle or inner ear, where hearing takes place.

  • Plastic Surgeon
  • Atlanta, Georgia

The surgical reshaping of the external ear, or otoplasty, is not meant to affect hearing. In the immediate post-operative period, hearing may be muffled due to swelling about and within the ear canal; this is temporary and resolves within a few days after surgery.

  • Plastic Surgeon
  • Erie, Pennsylvania

No. It is strictly a cosmetic procedure.

  • Plastic Surgeon
  • Coral Gables, Fl

It will not. This surgery is only to the outside structures and cartilage that shapes your ears.

  • Plastic Surgeon
  • Loma Linda, CA

No, not to any significant extent. Cupped ears catch sound coming from from a little better than when sound source is behind you.

  • Plastic Surgeon
  • Vaughan, Ontario

Hi,

The surgery is done on the external ear. It does not affect the hearing at all.
Thanks.



  • Plastic Surgeon
  • Tucson, AZ

Changing the shape of an ear should not affect your hearing at all.

  • Plastic Surgeon
  • Lafayette, Louisiana

This is an easy answer. Absolutely not!!
Dr. Louis Mes

  • Plastic Surgeon
  • Los Angeles, CA

This is a great question and good for you to think about this. When you are having cosmetic surgery around areas that serve a function (Such as ears, nose, mouth and eyes) it is always important to consider the effects of the surgery on those functions. You should always seek the advice of a surgeon experienced in surgery in those areas. Luckily, otoplasty (Surgery done to correct a protruded ear) done properly should in no way affect your hearing. The surgery will simply re-create the natural contour of your outer ear and reduced the protrusion of the ear. Your ear canal and vital ear structures that aid in hearing should remain undisturbed.

  • Plastic Surgeon
  • New York, NY

An otoplasty should have nothing to do with hearing. It just pins back your fly away ears.

William B. Rosenblatt, M.D.

  • Audiologist
  • Arvada, Co

It may, but an otolaryngologist would better educate you about that. 

  • Ear-Nose and Throat Doctor (ENT)
  • Larkspur, California

Possible minor change, but only if have pre-existing hearing loss

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