Methods
A prospectively, double-blinded, and randomized evaluation of twenty patients submitted to bilateral otoplasty, from October 2014 to November 2016. Randomization was conducted by alternatively assigning patients to each treatment, previously determining that the first hospitalized patient demanding the surgical intervention would be assigned to otoplasty with preservation of the conchal cartilage, the second to intervention without preservation of the conchal cartilage and continuing in this way following the order in which patients were hospitalized. Thus, subjects with even or odds numbers were assigned to otoplasty treatments with or without preservation of the conchal cartilage, respectively, until 20 patients were attended (two groups with ten individuals each). All the patients underwent an alginate ear molding before the surgery and six months later. The Eclectic Technique, described by Maniglia, was chosen to all cases.