The psychological benefits of this highly rewarding procedure provide a high degree of satisfaction. Children and adults with large outstanding ears are often subject to unkind teasing, emotional stress, self-consciousness and taunts because of the appearance of their ears. This may lead to misbehavior on the part of children or social withdrawal. As a child moves into adolescence and adulthood, they often become quite self-conscious about the appearance of their ears, modifying their hairstyle and often avoiding social or athletic activities that might predispose them to expose their "funny looking" ears. For many individuals with prominent ears, the psychosocial effects can be extremely traumatic.

Surgical intervention can effectively be performed after the age of 6 years on children and at any age on adults to correct this problem. Otoplasty usually takes between 1 to 2 hours to perform. The technique employed by Dr. Geroulis involves an incision placed behind the ear. Thereafter, any incision line will not be apparent. A protective dressing is applied to protect the ear during the healing stage.