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Otoplasty: Focusing on Patient Benefit and Health-Related Quality of Life

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Advanced Cosmetic Otoplasty

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Unarguably, the main aim of every aesthetic surgery is to produce a subjective benefit for the patient. Today, the construct “health-related quality of life” (HRQOL) is considered by many authors to be the most important parameter in the evaluation of a therapy regime. Three studies using validated tools to measure HRQOL show that otoplasty leads to a significant and long-lasting increase in the HRQOL of children and adults suffering from protruding ears. While minor complications, if handled adequately, do not threaten the beneficial effect of the operation, severe auricular deformities after failed otoplasty can result in an appearance more annoying than the preoperative state of prominent ears.

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  1. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany

    Thomas Braun M.D., Alexander Berghaus M.D. & John Martin Hempel M.D.

  2. Klinik und Poliklinik für Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Heilkunde der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Marchioninistraße 15, Munich, D-81377, Germany

    Thomas Braun M.D., Alexander Berghaus M.D. & John Martin Hempel M.D.

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Braun, T., Berghaus, A., Hempel, J.M. (2013). Otoplasty: Focusing on Patient Benefit and Health-Related Quality of Life. In: Shiffman, M. (eds) Advanced Cosmetic Otoplasty. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35431-1_58

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