My Ear Revision Experience

I don't fully understand your question. My rhinoplasty surgeon, Dr. Andrew Frankel, made it deformed (see my 1st pic). He took cartilage from the ear, going in from the back of the ear, to put in my nose - and somehow messed things up. The surgeons I consulted with to try to repair the ear disagreed about what Dr. Frankel did wrong. Dr. Reinisch thought once the ear was opened from behind, Dr. Frankel cut too high up and therefore a chunk was removed from the middle ridge. Dr. Reinisch says this is the reason he almost never goes into the ear from behind. He says it's too hard to see what you're doing that way. For Dr. Reinisch's repair work, he went into my ear from the front. He cut off the part that was sticking out bad, made it into a graft, and put the graft into the space where cartilage was missing. I was awake for Dr. Reinisch's procedure, and it took about 20-30 minutes. Let me know if you have more questions.

Hii I have major telephone deformity in my right ear. Was wondering what the price was for repair

Hi- Sorry you're going through that. You will probably have to call his office to get a price estimate. My surgery with Dr. Reinisch cost $1800, but I had a different problem than you have. He was more expensive than the other surgeons I consulted with. Probably because he is more experienced. Good luck!

Thanks! In the middle ridge of my ear, Dr. Frankel apparently removed a chunk of cartilage, leaving a gap. Dr. Reinisch filled in that gap with some cartilage, but I believe that some of the cartilage absorbed. So where the gap was, it's now filled in, but not quite completely. There's still a dent there, while there was no gap or dent before I went to Dr. Frankel. There is a scar on the outside of the ear where Dr. Reinisch cut into it, but it's not noticeable to me at all. The surgery took about 30 minutes, with me awake the whole time. I could drive myself home that day and felt fine to do work after, and Dr. Reinisch said I could even go swimming (but I didn't). I think the total healing took several months - maybe like 8 or 9. Of course the most intense healing was in the first month or so, where I just tried to not touch the ear except to clean it, and tried not to sleep on it. Let me know if you have more questions. I'm very sorry if you're going through something like this too from a bad rhinoplasty.

In person I was asked recently what was wrong with my ear. So it's better, but not perfect. I am back to covering it with both a bandage and hair.

He didn't really. He offered to cut off the part that was sticking out funny, but I decided to get second opinions from ear specialists, and decided to go with Dr. Reinisch.