A Chinese man named Gee, whose age is not listed and whose face is not shown in the press, lost his right ear in a car accident in 2015. After that, he was very upset and in his own words "did not feel normal."
He really wanted the doctors to correct his defect.
First, a special expander was placed under the skin of the Chinese, which stretches the skin and allows you to get a piece of skin for a new ear without damaging the underlying skin of the hand.
Then the plastic surgeon removed the cartilage from Ji's rib, after which, using a 3D printer, a plastic part in the shape of an auricle was created and the cartilage was given the same shape. Then the cartilage was placed under the stretched skin of the patient's arm to overgrow the skin with blood vessels.
A few months later, the new ear on the hand was fully formed and the final stage of the operation began - a head transplant. Over the next two weeks, Ji will be in the hospital under the supervision of doctors who are watching how the new ear takes root in a new place. If all goes well, he will go home in two weeks.