Name: Prosthetic ears: how they're made
Uploaded: 2015-04-08T09:11:48.000Z
Duration: 2 min 45 s
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The first thing we do is plan where the implants are going to go because we need to fit them inside the

largest portion of the ear prosthesis and the way we do that is we

or do a preliminary sculpture of where the replacement ear is going to go.

And in doing that we can determine where we're going to put the implant

within the prosthesis. Then the patient will have the surgery

to place the implant and we'll wait for those

implants to heal to integrate into the bone and that usually takes

two to three months and then we'll start fitting them with a permanent

an impression is made of the site and this time we can capture the

position of the implants so this comes off like that.

We pour up a model. Again, then we have the

We have to then make a substructure to retain the ear

custom colored silicone into the mould. So this is an example

many artists are used to doing, mixing pigments into

a sort of medium to create their own palate. So here you can see we have

we add a cross linker to them, we paint them

into a mould just like any artist would paint into and