SURGEONS from all over the world were set to perform pioneering ear reconstruction operations in Edinburgh today.
Three children were due to get new ears created for them in complex procedures at a specialist unit in the Capital.
Pictures of the surgical teams - from Japan, France and Germany - at work will be beamed live to the Royal College of Surgeons to be watched by delegates from across the globe.
The conference was organised by the British Association of Plastic Reconstructive Aesthetic Surgeons, with work by Edinburgh-based cosmetic surgeon Ken Stewart.
Mr Stewart, who is the only surgeon to perform the complex surgery in Scotland, said the operations took between six and eight hours.
The surgeons will operate on nine-year-old Sean Bentley, from Denny, Stirlingshire, who was born with one underdeveloped ear.
The other patients are a 12-year-old whose ear was ripped off by a dog when she was a baby, and another child with a birth defect.
Mr Stewart said: "There is evidence that this kind of surgery, while often purely cosmetic, can have a big effect on children's self-esteem and improve their lives in the long term."
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