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Do you feel any stitches popping out of your incision? Is your incision tender? Sometimes, permanent sutures used in Otoplasty surgery may pop out. This can cause localized redness. To best answer your question, you should consider visiting your surgeon or another reputable facial plastic surgeon for a definitive answer. Thank you for your question. Sincerely, Dr. Joseph
it looks mainly like crusting to me, not an infection. cleaning it gently (and remembering to do so going forward) will probably be the best thing for you to do.
You should clean the crustingand use a mild strength steroid cream twice a day for a week. That seems to be a dermatitis.
Additionally, it's difficult to give advice without seeing how your other ear looks. The good news is that we only visualize somebody's ear one at a time. If your goal is simply to have and earlobe created on your small ear, Lower consider meeting with a facelift specialist. After facelift,...
The distortion of the ear comes from skin closure tension and that is what is exposing more of the canal. It is called a smeared ear. You will need a scar revision. Best Wishes, Gary Horndeski, M.D.
Since your surgery was two years ago, and the shape and form of your cartilage has been stable over that period of time, it is unlikely that your cartilage shape will change going forward. It is difficult to know exactly why the shape is what it is, especially without knowing exactly what was...