Boy born without ears has pair made from own ribs

A boy born without any ears has had a pair created from his own ribs.

Not many nine-year-olds desire to have a “big pair of ears” but before the operation it was Kieran Sorkin’s biggest wish.

Last Tuesday, experts at Great Ormond Street Hospital performed a six-hour operation where they used cartilage from his ribs to create a pair of ears and grafted them to his head.