Jan F. Esser Champion, winning the Dutch Championship in a play-off match for the title against Rudolf Loman in 1913. Jan F. Esser Johannes "Jan" Fredericus Samuel Esser (13 October 1877 in Leiden – 9 August 1946 in Chicago) was a Dutch plastic surgeon who pioneered innovative methods of reconstructive surgery on soldiers wounded in the First World War. He is thought to have coined the term "stent" in 1917 to describe his use of a dental impression compound invented in 1856 by the English dentist Charles Stent (1807–1885) to create a form for facial reconstruction. The term "stent" was later extended to
Mustardé technique or 2 weeks, or longer in exceptional cases. The Mustardé ear pinning surgery is, according to the opinion of Weerda not suitable for all ears. A similar method, by which the cartilage is left intact, is the so-called Stitch method. But the ear is not cut open with the stitch method, which is why it belongs to the closed and minimally invasive otoplasties. Bleeding, ear lying too close to the head, stronger asymmetry of the ear distances, hypertrophic scar, keloid, pressure damage (necrosis) caused by the bandage, recurrence. Mustardé technique The Mustardé technique is an otoplastic surgery (otoplasty) for pinning