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The Role of the Postauricular Fascia in Otoplasty: A Complete System for Otoplasty

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Therefore, while anterior scoring can give good results, the occasional severe complications, and all the listed problems with discomfort and dressings, led the author to favor an alternative approach which means that the aesthetic outcome is better and complications are minimal and if they occur they are easy to correct. The author describes raising the anteriorly/distally based fascial flap for otoplasty. Patients do not need head bandages and can shower the day after surgery while not requiring attendance for dressings, and especially in females with long hair, there are no stigmata of surgery at all.

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  1. Mersey Regional Burns and Plastic Surgery Unit, Ward 4D, Whiston Hospital, Warrington Rd, Liverpool, L35 5DR, UK

    Kayvan Shokrollahi MD, BSc, MB ChB, MSc, LLM, MRCS(Eng), FRCS(Plast)

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  1. Kayvan Shokrollahi MD, BSc, MB ChB, MSc, LLM, MRCS(Eng), FRCS(Plast)
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Correspondence to Kayvan Shokrollahi MD, BSc, MB ChB, MSc, LLM, MRCS(Eng), FRCS(Plast) .

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    Melvin A. Shiffman

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Shokrollahi, K. (2013). The Role of the Postauricular Fascia in Otoplasty: A Complete System for Otoplasty. In: Shiffman, M. (eds) Advanced Cosmetic Otoplasty. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35431-1_35

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