Abstract
<p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> Preauricular sinus is the common congenital disease with tendency for repeated infections. It can present as a pit or depression at the anterior margin of ascending limb of helix. It is due to defect in auricular embryogenesis, which results in preauricular sinus.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Methods:</strong> This is the prospective study conducted in Mysore Medical College. All preauricular sinus patients were included for this study. 20 patients of all gender underwent surgery by supra-auricular dissection. </p><p class="abstract"><strong>Results:</strong> In all the cases plane of temporalis fascia identified, skin anterior to the sinus is excised along with a piece of adjoining helical cartilage. With this method no recurrences were encountered.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Conclusions:</strong> Standard surgical technique i.e. sinusectomy has more recurrence rate. In our study we observed that surgical outcome after supra–auricular dissection method had no recurrences.</p>
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