How to Fix Cauliflower Ear Caused from Wrestling?

If you are retired from contact sports, then you may be a surgery candidate, otherwise more trauma would damage results. 

The ear surgery is a specialized OTOPLASTY.

The ear will likely never look like they did before, but if the thickness is isolated to a small area, then the surgery is possible. 

The costs depend on the extent of the ear deformity.   Best Wishes

Cauliflower ears are the result of too much cartilage growth from trauma to the ear. In areas where the ear has been exposed to shearing forces, the skin is pulled off of the cartilage and blood fills the space...eventually turning into scar or cartilage. This requires the skin to be lifted off of the deformed area and the cartilage shaved back down to a normal shape either as a convexity or a concavity based on where the ear is misshapen. This needs to be under anesthesia to do this delicate surgery properly. The key to preventing a recurrence of the same problem from the surgery are methods to fix the skin back down and help hold in place so no blood forms between the two. The average ear reconstructive surgery cost will be between $3500 to $5000, depending on how extensive the cauliflower ear deformity is.