Lasers in surgery and medicine
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Correction of prominent ears is a common plastic surgical procedure. We introduced a new non-invasive laser-assisted cartilage reshaping (LACR) technique as an alternative to invasive surgical otoplasty. ⋯ LACR appears to be a safe and reproducible method for the treatment of protruding ears. Other applications of this technique, like laser assisted septal cartilage reshaping (LASCR) for septum deviation, have been recently described.