Almost every week in Dubai, I meet a patient whose ears were corrected once and slowly drifted back. The result looked right for a while, then, over months, the prominence returned. They usually blame their healing or their luck. Neither is the real culprit. Relapse after ear pinning is a biomechanical event with a specific […]
Surgeons speak of straightening a septum. The word is wrong, and the error inside it explains most of the failures I see in revision patients in Dubai. Septal cartilage is not passively crooked. It is a plate whose outer layers are held in tension, opposing forces canceling one another so that the resultant is zero. […]