Procedure carried out in US on woman with microtia born with small and misshapen right ear

A woman has had her external ear reconstructed using a 3D-printed living tissue implant in what appears to be the first trial of its kind, according to reports.

The technology has been developed for people with microtia, a rare congenital condition in which one or both outer ears are absent or incompletely formed.

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