Only a handful of doctors in the U.S. perform a complex reconstruction procedure for children born with a rare condition ...

NBC News’ Camila Bernal reports in our series “The Cost of Denial” about the special surgery eight-year-old Olivia Olson ...

According to the National Birth Defects Prevention Network, one in every 8,000 to 10,000 births in the United States result in one of two congenital malformations of the ear: microtia (the child is ...

LEVITTOWN, NY (WPIX) — A 5-year-old New York boy born without a left ear r ecently underwent a unique ear reconstruction surgery using cadaver tissue. The technique used for Luca Vacchio, of Long ...

A young boy's wish to just get through a day without strange stares and ridicule is about to come true. In a small town in South Africa, Victor Nwadike was born without a fully-formed ear and little ...

On Friday, 29 August, a groundbreaking surgery is set to be carried out at the Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital in Johannesburg, involving the reconstruction of an ear using the Su-por technique — ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A new kind of reconstructive surgery at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has changed a little girl's life. When Lilliana Parrales was born with facial differences, her family ...

Army surgeons grows ear in soldier’s arm for reconstruction surgery A soldier who lost her ear in a 2016 car accident has a newly transplanted ear that was grown in her own arm, the Army said. Plastic ...