[Late results of corrective surgery of prominent auricles]

In 87 persons who had to undergo plastic surgery of the auricle an evaluation was carried out of the motives for undergoing such surgery, on the one hand, and of the late results of the success of surgical intervention, on the other. The motives for undergoing surgery clearly suggest a significant psychological component, so that the intervention must most likely be regarded as a psycho-prophylactic measure. As concerns the results, it is striking that the evaluation given by the patients has been better (subjective evaluation) than that given by the doctors (objective evaluation), the subjective evaluation sometimes differing from the objective one.