A must see for parents of patients with microtia

  In many cases, family awareness and treatment are very important, so let’s start with the inspiring film “Lorenzo’s Oil”. “Lorenzo’s oil”. His son, Lorenzo Auden, suffered from a rare disease, adrenal leukodystrophy (ALD), when he was 5 years old.  Augustus retired early from the World Bank in 1987 to care for his son. That year, Lorenzo began to experience sudden outbursts of anger, as well as a gradual loss of hearing, balance and body coordination, and doctors estimated that he would live only two more years. To treat his son’s illness, Augustus, who had no medical training, along with his wife, began reading a lot of medical journals and seeking advice from physicians.  He was inspired by an article about feeding olive oil to animals to reduce long-chain fatty acids, and developed an oil therapy that involved drinking a mixture of triglycerides and triglycerides of erucic acid, and Lorenzo lived 22 years longer than his doctors expected, dying the day after his 30th birthday in 2008. The oil became known as “Lorenzo’s Oil” and the story was made into a movie. Over the years, people have been saying to me: ‘Augustus, you are too possessive, this child will die eventually, why put him through so much? But Lorenzo is also a man with a mind and a soul …… We have always believed in our choices.” As opposed to various birth defects of the body surface, many can now rely on plastic surgery for treatment, and many can obtain good surgical results, which should be simpler than Lorenzo’s oil treatment method.  Microtia is one of the more complex disorders, and it requires more understanding by parents, who need to know the best time to treat it, the method, how to maintain it after surgery, and many other issues, as well as some protective measures that need to be constantly instilled in children so that they can care for their reconstructed ears as much as they care for their eyes.