A full-thickness skin graft was used to repair the resulting donor-site defect. Remaining helical rim, scaphoid, antihelical and posterior cartilage defects were covered with a post-auricular ...

and Helical Rim Deformity, which affects the outer rim of the ear. “Some of these defects are obvious, but some are really subtle,” Khosla said. Some newborns’ ears have simply been squished ...

The plane waves interact with these defects, thereby generating helical waves. “We’re looking for waves with a kind of perfect curl, and in order to generate the curl we need to give them ...