The Ear and your Facelift Incisions.

Scottsdale – Understanding the anatomy of the ear is important for anybody considering facelift surgery.

The human ear becomes important in several facial plastic surgery operations because the incisions for facelift, go around the ear. In fact, by using the ear landmarks, a plastic surgeon can effectively camouflage the incisions, so they become hardly noticeable. A facelift is a very special plastic surgery operation, where patients desire natural looking results and hardly noticeable incisions.

Let’s learn about human ear anatomy!

In the Diagram: The Ear and your Facelift Incisions, we see the model’s ear strategically colored to demonstrate the points. The green color is over the Helix of the ear. The pink color is demonstrating the anti helix. Please not that the bottom of the antihelix, is often times referred as the anti tragus.

We also see the lobule colored in yellow. The lobule is very important for facial rejuvenation surgery. We make a very special effort to restore the normal anatomy of the ear lobule, in order to camouflage the fact that a cosmetic surgery patient has had a facelift.

In the top front of the ear (colored in white), we see the root. The root attaches to the face and transitions nicely to become the helix of the ear. The root is another critical portion of the design of any facial plastic surgery.

The concha or bowl of the ear is colored in gray. The concha is variable in size and depth and may be enlarged or prominent in the prominent ear. We also see the tragus colored in blue. When a cosmetic surgeon plans a facelift or neck lift operation, he has to carefully consider the tragus. The incision can go on the tragus itself or in front of the tragus. To learn more about facelift incisions an how a plastic surgeon uses the ear anatomy to make these less noticeable, stay tuned for tomorrow’s blog.