"Shortly after our son was born, we noticed that the rim of the left ear was folded and the lobe of the same ear was crinkled a bit too. Immediately we expressed this concern to our paediatrician and midwife but they said that is not a big deal and that it would go away on its own. We visited two other doctors, one of them was an ENT doctor. Before setting the appointments we had already read about EarBuddies but we were nervous about fitting them ourselves. Since ear splinting appears in research as a non-surgical correction alternative, we were really hoping that the ENT doctor would be familiar with it and that he would do the fitting instead. But it did not turn out as we hoped.
Before EarBuddies - 10 weeks old
After 3 months using EarBuddies
The doctor said that we would have to wait until our son was older to do the correction and it would be a surgery. We were so dissapointed that so much precious time was wasted and immediately ordered EarBuddies and fitted them ourselves. Our son was 10 weeks old when we fitted them. After two weeks of splintage we noticed a significant difference already. We could not believe it. We splinted for 3 months which is longer than it is recommended because we feared a regression of results. Yesterday we took the splint off, his ear looks amazing and we are so happy with the results. Thank you EarBuddies for such a useful invention!"