Otoplasty This is often done to make protruding ears smaller or more normal in appearance or to make the ears more symmetrical.

Reconstructive Surgeries on the Outer Ear. Occasionally an outer ear needs to be created or significantly changed, if a person was born without an outer ear or if the ear had to be removed for any reason, such as cancer, infection, or trauma.

Myringotomy with PE Tube making a hole in the eardrum to drain fluid/infection and let air in through the tube.

Tympanoplasty -- repairing the eardrum, usually with a tissue graft that is placed under or on top of a hole in the eardrum.

Tympanoplasty with Ossiculoplasty
Stapedectomy -- removing a fixed (stuck) stapes bone and reconnecting the inner ear to the other ear bones, usually using a wire or piston.

Mastoidectomy -- cleaning diseased bone from behind and around the ear

Labyrinthectomy -- to destroy the inner ear in situations where the inner ear cannot hear and there is chronic dizziness.

Endolymphatic Sac Decompression -- Removing bone from the surface of the endolymphatic sac, which is situated in the dura (the tough tissue) that covers the brain just behind the inner ear in the back part of the mastoid

Vestibular Nerve Section -- to cut the nerve to the balance parts of the inner ear in the canal behind the inner ear, sparing the hearing nerve and the nerve to the face that goes through the canal, too.