As a facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon, Dr. Stephan loves creating ears for his pediatric patients who were born with microtia and atresia. Dr. Stephan also enjoys teaching his surgical technique for making Medpor and Omnipore ears to medical students around the world.
It is important for Dr. Stephan to help as many children feel more comfortable about their appearance as possible, but if they can not come to him for help, he will find a way to go to them with his mission trips. For the past six years, Dr. Stephan and a team travel to Guatemala with the FINN Foundation, an organization in conjunction with the Face To Face Foundation (the humanitarian division of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (AAFPRS), to help children with cleft lip, palate, cleft rhinoplasty deformities and… microtia!
Below are some images from some of the mission trips that Dr. Stephan is proud to have been a part of when helping children receive beautiful reconstructed ears.
Drs. Labadie & Bennett in Haiti. 
This is a medical student from Guatemala who Dr. Stephan and team are training to become a surgeon. He had rib recon in 2003 x2 that we revised in 2017. 
This is Giselle who had surgery for unilateral Microtia who can’t stop smiling! 
This is Mynor, who has bilateral Microtia (grade II on right and III+ on left); he had bilateral surgery. 
A patient coming back with his dad a year after his surgery. 
Santa Catalina arch in Antigua, Guatemala. 
A new ear from Dr. Stephan! 
Picking up a soccer match with the locals 
A little boy who received a new ear from Dr. Stpehan 
One of the cleft palate and rhinoplasty patients helped by Dr. Stephan while on mission 
A thankful mother of a boy who received an ear from Dr. Stephan and the mission team.