How to Improve Ears That Project Far From Head

1908

Because of the number of inquiries as to whether it is possible to improve projecting ears, I am writing this special advice. Such a deformity — for ears that stick far out from the head can scarcely be termed otherwise — is one for which there is no remedy after years of maturity are reached. For when one advances beyond the period of early youth the cartilage becomes hard and unyielding, and only a surgical operation has any effect. Such treatment is expensive, and so few persons can avail themselves of its benefits.

It is barely possible that months of bandaging might accomplish a reduction in the distance from the head, but of this I am rather doubtful. If it were possible to soak the ears so thoroughly in oil as to soften the hard substances and at the same time hold them close to the head, the protruding might become less. Theoretically this is undoubtedly so; practically, I doubt if the longest course of this treatment would be effective. It is the surgeon's knife or the continuance of projecting ears.

The most annoying part of homely ears is that proper care in youth would have kept them inconspicuous, if it did not make them pretty, and even a natural tendency to projection, if taken in time, could have been checked.

—MARGARET MIXTER.