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I understand the point of this Zoidbergish procedure, but I still have one question - did they bother connecting the nerves and if so, is there tactile sensation on the ear?
thats kind of amazing that you can just graft one body part onto another while waiting for the correct spot to heal enough to actually have a successful reattachment surgery.
The ear is about the only thing this really works with. There’s not much special going on with it, it’s just shaped flesh and cartilage. You don’t even need nerves in the ear to use it, since literally everything happens inside your head.
You couldn’t do this with pretty much anything else really.
They do that with feet and hands routinely.
Who does?
Saving you a click:
The patient suffered a horrific workplace accident involving heavy machinery, which tore off a large part of her scalp and her ear with it. The damage to her scalp and vascular network was so severe that restoring the ear at the time was impossible, so the procedure was performed to save the patient’s aural orifice so it could be reattached to her head later.
The patient can’t wear a shoe on that foot, but I guess that’s the least of their worries at that point.
Maybe they’ll be able to graft the ear back on her head before she’d be healed enough to walk out of the hospital anyway.
That’s the whole reason they attached it to her foot.
The damage to her scalp and vascular network was so severe that restoring the ear at the time was impossible, so the procedure was performed to save the patient’s aural orifice so it could be reattached to her head later.
